China's "New Concept of Security"

BAKS Working Papers, 2018

China's security strategy, which is termed Comprehensive National Security in official documents, seeks close interrelations among economic and military development goals, among other things. This raises the question whether and how economic cooperation with China should also be looked at from a security policy angle more closely than hitherto. This, in turn, presupposes that China's development must be seen as the development of an actor all of whose actions are strategic. More attention should be paid to the question of China's strategy development in the context of "comprehensive strategic partnership" between Germany and China.

Sohail Ahmad, 2019

How security concepts are chnaging Realist and liberalist view about Secuirty China Doctrine about Security

Journal of China and International Relations, 2013

The objectives of this article are, firstly, to provide a framework for understanding the nexus between the studies of the rise of China and international security issues in a combination of both internal and external perspectives; secondly to show how internal and external environments are having an impact on the official formulation of China’s security understanding and policy; and thirdly to conceptualize the “Chinese self-perceptions” of its security concerns from the perspectives of its historical memories and legacies of security experiences, its political debates on national power and status, and its justified international role. The article especially emphasizes the importance of studying the Chinese concept of national and international security, and examining how China perceives itself, the world, and China’s place within the existing international order. The article’s methodological approach is to explore China’s increasing awareness of the interplay between unconventiona...

Academic and applied research in military and public management science, 2018

For this reason, when a ruler who has comprehended the Way (Tao) is about to employ his people, he will first bring them into harmony, and only thereafter embark on great affairs." Wu-tzu The People's Republic of China has become one of the leading superpowers in the World; its capabilities to protect its interests embrace not only some regional areas of the Asian continent but practically the entire World. This heading has not only positive consequences but negative effects, as well. Obviously, there are many different fields where security risks can threaten the Chinese interests. One of the most important is that parallel to the growth of China as a great power, the exposure to terrorist threats against the Chinese colonies living around the World is also growing.

This article argues that security studies have evolved from the primary concern about states and how to prevent them from military attacks to its current diversity in which environmental, economic, human, etc., stand alongside military security. It begins by reviewing the traditional view of security before arguing that the security agenda has been broadened and deepened since the 1980s. 1 It becomes broader in that it includes not only military but also non-military security. It is deeper in that it moves down to look at individuals and groups within the state rather than the exclusive focus on the state. The article examines two influential perspectives labeled Critical Security Studies and Human Security which have made a considerable contribution to the development of the non-traditional security literature. Thus, the security agenda has embraced them as 'alternative approaches' to security. 2 Next, it provides China as empirical evidence to back up the assertion that se...

IDE スクエア -- 世界を見る眼, 2023

(In this PDF, the English version is available below the Japanese one) The 20th Party Congress signaled Xi Jinping’s consolidation of power, as he is now expected to execute his foreign policy and domestic agenda with fewer political constraints. In analyzing Xi’s public statements and the CPC’s official documents, this report highlights Beijing’s expansive definitions of security and how this understanding shapes China’s regional diplomacy. It concludes with policy recommendations for the Japanese and Taiwanese governments. 中国共産党の公式の文書およびメディア報道、そして近年の中国外交政策に関する先行研究に基づいて、本稿は、習近平と党指導部が中国の安全保障環境をどのように解釈し、アジアとそれ以外の地域に対する中国の外交政策の展望をどのように考えているのかをより詳細に分析する。まず、第20回党大会文書のなかで、中国の不安感の高まりがどのように表現されているのかをみる。第2に、党中央が、国内外における深刻な課題に直面するなかで、安全保障概念の定義や範囲を公式文書でどのように示したのかを検証する。この検証を踏まえて、今後数年における中国の外交政策がどのような意味を持ち、どのような結果を生むのかを議論する。そして最後に、党中央の台湾に対する政策スタンスを取り上げ、日本と台湾双方に対する政策提言を行う。

Power and Responsibility in Chinese Foreign Policy, 2014

The image of the People's Republic of China as an irresponsible power has been largely, though not exclusively, constructed by examinations and interpretations of what is purported to be China's security behaviour in regional and global international relations. The 'domino theory' associated closely with the threat from Red China in the 1950s and the 1960s and the 'China threat' debates in the last decade are just two primary examples. Issues and incidents such as China's participation in the Korean War, its support of Communist insurgents in Southeast Asia and involvement in the Vietnam War, its border wars with India, the former Soviet Union and Vietnam, its readiness to use force in territorial disputes in the South China Sea and its recalcitrance over the Taiwan issue, and its arms sale and export of nuclear technology to 'rogue' states such as Iran and Iraq, are among the evidence of China's irresponsible behaviour in world politics. This image has become etched in studies of China's international relations. 1 It is not surprising, perhaps, that the existing literature on regional security in the Asia Pacific has focused on China as the central security concern of the region, particularly with the much trumpeted rise of China's power. What is disconcerting, though, is the severe disproportion between the keen attention to China as a security concern and the intractable neglect of China's security concerns in the current debate. 2 In other words, China is regarded

Asia-Pacific - Annual Research Journal of Far East & South East Asia

Common threat and co-morbid realization have diverted the attention of humans toward non-traditional security studies. The real essence of non-traditional security (NTS) is called ‘shared security’. It is not only extension and transformation of security, but it also gives innovation to discourse of NTS studies. The object of shared security is to solve conflicts of human society in general and in diverse conflicts under the Chinese values and contribution in security and diplomacy in particular. Chinese concepts, such as ‘bao he tai he’ (great harmony are preserve in union), ‘wan guoxianning’ (states all enjoy response), ‘he erbu tong’ (harmony but not sameness), and ‘tianxia da tong’ (unity of the world) all embody rich intellectual resources and the growing discourse on ‘shared security’. The Chinese ‘Five Principles of Peaceful Coexistence’ are the symbol of peace and harmony while the origin of share security provided an important ideological and unique value of the cooperation...

International Journal of Multidisciplinary Academic Research, 2021

China's defence policy has been evolving since 1949, when the Communist Party of China (CPC) came into power. What started as a Communist Revolution turned into active defensive strategies and peaceful interferences for opposing threats and maintaining social cohesion? Since the late 1940s, China has changed a lot, however, has the old spirit totally died out? Since China is already a rising superpower and one of the strongest military states in the world, it is necessary for the world to explore their policy on national defence and security in order to understand their views and foresee the possible position or even reaction to certain situations. This study tries to outline the mentality and strategic planning of China in defence and security policies aiming to define their primary goals and expectations for the future. Furthermore, it presents major incidents that occurred domestically and internationally during the last decades and lead to CPC's predominance. Lastly, this study investigates China's approach in the "sensitive" matters of Xinjiang, Tibet, Hong Kong and Taiwan and presents the CPC's holistic (military, economic and diplomatic) response with the international community.