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2018 Vol. 26, No. 1  Published: 20 January 2018
 
On China's Maritime Power Strategy Hot!
JIA Yu
2018, 26(1): 1-8  |  Full text (HTML) (1 KB)  | PDF   PDF (1499 KB)  ( 1879 )
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The maritime is of vital importance to the survival and development of the Chinese nation. The maritime issue is a strategic pivot for the development of the country. Maritime strategy determines the rise and decline of the country's marine enterprise. Since 1949, China's maritime strategy has undergone a development process from the ocean
understanding with the bottom line of “survival” to the maritime policy centering on “development”, and then converges at the objective of “building the maritime power of China”. Such a development process is characterized by the core of “building China into a country with strong maritime power”. China is now in the period of significant opportunity to implement the strategy of strengthening maritime power. China is faced with a favorable environment and foundation, but also risks and challenges. Opportunities, in general, outweigh challenges. Implementing the strategy of building China into a country with strong maritime power and promoting China's transformation from a major maritime country to a strong maritime power are an important part for realizing the strategic blueprint for the development of socialism with Chinese characteristics in the new era.
Richelieu's Thought on Sea Power and the Formation of Sea Power of Modern France
HU Dekun,LI Xiang
2018, 26(1): 9-17  |  Full text (HTML) (1 KB)  | PDF   PDF (1510 KB)  ( 885 )
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Same as a coast-and-land dual country, the formation of French modern sea power has important reference value for China's maritime power construction. At the beginning of the 17th century, faced with the requirements to build a strong maritime power, Richelieu, Prime Minister of France, proposed and implemented a distinctive thought on sea power. Richelieu's thought was mainly embodied in the systematic exploration into naval strategy and strategic principles, covering the following three aspects: understanding, construction and deployment of maritime power. Richelieu's thought on sea power provided a direct guidance to practices of the construction of French maritime power, promoted the renewal of French traditional marine concepts and national defense as a traditional landbased country and provided enlightenment for the development of naval strategy in France and the world. Richelieu's thought on sea power is a systematic thought of sea power which proposed by a traditional land-based country in the world for the first time. Its content not only provides enlightenment for other coast-and-land dual countries to crack the dilemma of developing sea power encountered by them, but also provides reference for the traditional maritime power.
On Trump's National Security Strategy of America First and the Game Relationship between China and the U.S. Hot!
TENG Jianqun
2018, 26(1): 18-24  |  Full text (HTML) (1 KB)  | PDF   PDF (1510 KB)  ( 1103 )
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Within 12 months, the Trump administration has issued its first national security strategy (NSS) to provide a comprehensive and systematic explanation of his domestic and diplomatic policies. The America First thought of the Trump administration has become the main theme of the report. The NSS report highlights a balanced development domestically, regards China and Russia as revisionist powers to the international politics, and takes the proliferation of weapon of mass destruction (WMD) as the main challenge to the security of the United States. The paper analyzes causes of the quick publication of NSS, and reviews the evolution of the America First thought. The author argues that some 20 years after the Cold War, the U.S. is now shifting back to the track of major powers' politics, which means that the game between China and the United States has entered a new era when opportunities and challenges coexist.
The Adjustment of Trump Government's Climate Policy and Its Implications
YU Hongyuan
2018, 26(1): 25-33  |  Full text (HTML) (1 KB)  | PDF   PDF (1513 KB)  ( 1382 )
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Upon coming into power, Trump government announces to withdraw from the Paris Agreement, which imposes a heavy blow to the global climate governance. In history, America's climate policy presents a great instability. The climate policy of Trump government shape a reversal of Obama administrations positive policy to cope with climate change, causing the comprehensive regression of the U.S. climate policy in three major aspects: the abolishment of clean energy plan, the withdraw from the Paris Agreement and the returning to traditional energy policy, which once again reflect the “cyclical” and “changeful” nature of U.S. climate policy. We need to systematically interpret the political and economic drivers behind Trump government's climate policy. This paper takes into account three different motivations and development trends of politics, economy and society. Furthermore, domestic climate governance, further development of the Paris Agreement and the global climate pattern and other aspects are referred to rationalize the extension of Trump's policy impact. This paper proposes that under the existing U.S. policy environment, China is supposed to strengthen cooperation with the United States in traditional energy, infrastructure investment, energy market and global natural gas market, green finance, climate financing and so on, to maintain Sino-American climate cooperation. China can also actively seek global climate system power to maintain and enhance its own interests and aspirations in the climate field.
Constructing a Sustainable Peace of Practice Oriented—Re-analysis of New Model of Major-country Relationship Hot!
JIN Canrong,ZHANG Kunpeng
2018, 26(1): 34-46  |  Full text (HTML) (1 KB)  | PDF   PDF (1560 KB)  ( 1333 )
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The proposal of new model of major-country relationship is the product of China’s long-term thinking on relationship between China and the outside world since the Reform and Opening Up. It is not only the self-awareness and self-confidence of China, but also a preliminary answer to “where is China heading?”. The core goal of the new major-country relationship is to pursue sustainable peace, and adhereing to practice-oriented to reconcile the tension between theory and reality. The practice over past five years has shown that the new majorcountry relationship satisfied with the dual requirements of purposiveness and rationality, and its necessity and possibility have been preliminarily verified. As a new thing which transcends the mainstream international relations theory of the west, it will certainly have a strong vitality.
The Transformation of Global Governance System and the Construction of a New Model of Sino-American Major-Country Relations
LIU Jianfei,XIE Jiannan
2018, 26(1): 47-63  |  Full text (HTML) (1 KB)  | PDF   PDF (1606 KB)  ( 1307 )
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China and America are two key players in the global governance system, both of which shoulder a special responsibility in the process of global governance system transformation. The two countries share cooperation opportunities, while also confront structural contradictions in the transformation. The trend of Sino-American relations not only directly affects bilateral political and economic development, but also has a deep impact on global governance and its reform direction and process of global governance system. To realize the positive interaction between the construction of a new model of Sino-American major-country relations and the transformation of global governance system, not only contributes to the development of Sino-American relations, but also promotes the development of global governance system towards a more fair and reasonable direction.
The Norm Innovation of “One Country, Two Systems” and Its Chinese Wisdom
LI Zhiyong,YUAN Zhengqing
2018, 26(1): 64-74  |  Full text (HTML) (1 KB)  | PDF   PDF (1649 KB)  ( 1004 )
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Innovations of “one country, two systems”, a brand new thing, haven't received much attention from students of IR. The norm innovation depends not only on the individual with creative spirits, but also on the interaction between the individual and environments. The norm innovation generates from complex multi-dimensional interaction between agent and its structure. The in-depth structural-historical analysis illustrates, although the norm innovation of “one country, two systems” depends on Deng Xiaoping's personal genius, it is also the product of structural environments at home and abroad. The norm innovation of “One Country, Two Systems” demonstrates the Chinese government's spirit of seeking truth from facts and keeping pace with the times. The Chinese government's successful norm innovation on “One Country, Two Systems” not only manifests Chinese wisdom of modern sovereignty, but also will give a clue to the design of the Taiwan model of “One Country, Two Systems”.
The Misunderstanding and Theoretical Exploration of “the Belt and Road Initiatives”
YANG Guozhen,WANG Xiaodong
2018, 26(1): 75-81  |  Full text (HTML) (1 KB)  | PDF   PDF (5641 KB)  ( 842 )
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 As an extremely innovative theoretical system, “the Belt and Road Initiatives” shows the wisdom of China, which calls for theoretical exploration and practice to improve it. Confronted with academic circles and the media's misunderstanding of “the Belt and Road Initiatives”, the paper proposes: “the Belt and Road Initiatives” is neither a revival of land power, nor a struggle for sea power, but a balanced development of land and sea; “the Belt and Road Initiatives” is not to reinstate the conferring system of the Ming Dynasty, nor to realize the Chinese globalization, but to build a community with a shared future for mankind. The paper hopes to inspire the academic community to think and discuss the important theoretical issue of “the Belt and Road initiatives”, and to deepen the research on related issues.
Aligning the Blue Economic Passage leading up to Europe via the Arctic Ocean with Russia's Reviving Northern Sea Route: From Identification to Harmonization
ZHAO Long
2018, 26(1): 82-91  |  Full text (HTML) (1 KB)  | PDF   PDF (1536 KB)  ( 1040 )
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To jointly promoting construction of the Blue Economic Passage leading up to Europe via the Arctic Ocean is a significant part of maritime cooperation within China's “the Belt and Road Initiative”. Given the growing and farreaching impact of climate change in the Arctic, various stakeholders of Arctic affairs have gradually entered the status of complexinterdependence and even derivative-dependency. Driven by strategies, demands and environment, Russia has reached subjective identification with China on shared goals, roles and interests to develop the Arctic sea route, if from the perspective of broad regional governance. This identification also evolved into aligned actions on top-level design, departmental agenda-setting, prioritizing knowledge, mainstreaming enterprises and advocating market approaches. Meanwhile, the harmonization of domestic law with the newly implemented Polar Code, the sovereignty issue of Northern Sea Route, and the uncertain demand for transit transport are potential constraints in the development of the passage.
The Role of China in Global Economic Governance
SUN Zhenyu
2018, 26(1): 92-96  |  Full text (HTML) (1 KB)  | PDF   PDF (2882 KB)  ( 1295 )
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The paper presents major changes in economic globalization since World War II, discusses essential causes to the challenges facing the economic globalization, and analyses issues and deficiencies in global economic governance. Prerequisites to implement the plan of “take an active part in reforming and developing the global governance system, and keep contributing Chinese wisdom and strength to global governance” advocated by President Xi Jinping are proposed, and the paper elaborates the pivot for China's participation in global economic governance in the following four aspects: committing to the Belt and Road Initiative, sparing no effort to boost the realization of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, enhancing cooperation with the BRICS and emerging economics, and supporting multilateral trade regimes to promote the building of an open world economy.
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