Abstract： There is a huge difference of understanding of geopolitics between scholars and politicians. The scholars pay due attention to and can properly deal with the geographical relationships between points and planes. However, once such an advantage of scholars has been overemphasized, it becomes a disadvantage. Those theoretically strategic pivots proposed by the scholars have become temptations for which countries are struggling to compete for land. A predicable result is that battle stages are extended, national resources are over-consumed, and the nation is prone to decline. Essentially, geopolitics is the discipline that concentrates on the rehabilitation of countries and peaceful development around the world, the core of which depends on a correct understanding of the coordination between national objectives and resources in a specific geographic space, and excellent politicians, rather than scholars, have done a better job in such a perspective. As for China, the nation should keep a balanced development in all the strategic directions. Considering geopolitical features of Asia, Chinas national interest should be expanded following the principles of “safeguard state sovereignty, ensure domestic regime security, maintain a balanced power structure in the surrounding areas and keep a balanced global interest”.
