The Abstracts of Vol.4,2014

Releasing Time：07.16.2014Source：

The Right of Collective Self-Defense: the Essential Features of the Japan-US Military Alliance

Wang Ping

This paper, through studying the debate and wrestling on constitutional amendment and lifting the ban on the right of collective self-defense in the post war Japan, has traced the historical development of Japan, “the abnormal child” of the Cold War system, in drafting contradictory constitution, and entering conflicting peace accords and the US-Japan Security Treaty under the control of the US, and the changes of Japanese government’s explanation in regard to constitutional amendment and lifting the ban on the right of collective self-defense. The paper also pointed out the reasons and results of the Andouble administration trying to amend the constitution and lift the ban on the right of collective self-defense, and analyzed Japan’s third political right deviation as well as the goals of its third national development strategy, namely becoming a military power, while sorting out and analyzing the formation and features of the Japan-US military alliance.

Lifting the Ban on the Right of Collective Self-Defense: the Biggest Challenge for the Andouble Administration This Year

Da Zhigang

At the end of 2012, Abe entered into office with relatively high votes, and the Andouble Economics he advocated has won him temporary popularity and long ruling expectations. Meanwhile, by playing up the threats from China, DPRK and other neighbors, linking the East China Sea with the South China Sea, and strengthening the Japan-US alliance, Abe began the process of lifting the ban on the right of collective self-defense as he had long dreamed on the basis of such popularity and social foundation. Lifting the ban on the right of collective self-defense will involve a series of legal processes including constitutional amendment and national voting, is concerned with the National Security Council and the development of amending the three principles governing arms export, and will directly influence whether or not Japan will become a normal state and a military power by strengthening armament. As a result, lifting the ban on the right of collective self-defense will be the hot and focal drama of the year for the Andouble administration. At the same time, faced with opposition from China, ROK and other nations, the risks and challenges of Abe, Japanese politics as well as society turning further right will grow drastically.

The Issue of Extremist Revival in Central Asia in the Discourse of Globalization

Xu Tao

With the deepening development of economic globalization, a new round of extremist ideological trend has arisen, which has tremendous impact on regional stability and global security. With the rise of extremism, the pattern of political resources allocation in the world faces drastic changes, and the borderlands between the global power centers became the first to experience looseness and subversion. The appearance of the tide of extremism in Central Asia was resulted from the interaction of the internal contradictions of the region and the changes of the surrounding environment, which has different features from the past. As the Western nations including the US stick to the Cold War mentality, it has much weakened the unity and cooperation of the international community in its effort to fight against extremism, and such internal issues in the region as religious issue have even become important means of big powers in their game. How to manage the shocks sent by the rise of religious extremism in Central Asia is the issue that should be seriously considered by nations at the same or similar interest levels.

India’s Interregional Cooperation and Its Significance to China

Zhang Haixia

 “Interregional cooperation” joined in or dominated by emerging powers has become a real phenomenon in international relations and regional governance, which is not only the inevitable trend of the development of regional cooperation, but also the effort of the emerging powers to positively join in the construction of multilateral cooperation mechanism. India’s participation in the interregional cooperation in the Asian-Pacific region has a series of typical features, which showed not only the characteristics of India’s diplomacy, but also the influence of the development of interregionalism in the Asian-Pacific region. The rise of China and India has requested that they recognize their differences and similarities in development models, jointly construct “a new type of big power relationship”, and push forward the development of the interregional cooperation in the Asian-Pacific region as well as further promote the intercontinental interaction with the Asian-Pacific region as the main body under the existing frameworks of interregional cooperation. For China, the legality and validity of promoting interregional cooperation in the Asian-Pacific region are the most important.

The Strategic Encounter between the US and India in the Asian-Pacific Region

Xu Ke

With the rise in importance of the Asian-Pacific region in international political and economic pattern, both the US and India have attached more importance to the region and tried their best to expand their influence over the region. On the one hand, the US sped up its “return to the Asian-Pacific region”, and on the other hand, India went about steadily with its “Eastward Strategy”, with the two encountering one another at the Southeast Asia, which has already made direct impact on China. Of course, it is worth noting that although the strategies of the two corresponded to one another in “counterbalancing China”, the great differences in their strategic designs, core interests and basic conditions made it hard for them to turn the current “co-existence” into future “co-governance”. It is most likely that they will maintain a loose and limited partnership. Faced with such a pressure, China should adjust her thinking, widen the approach, strengthen herself and struggle actively to safeguard her interest the furthest.

The Internal Causes of the Conflict in Southern Sudan

Zeng Aiping

This paper has probed into the internal causes of the conflict in Southern Sudan, believing that the split of the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement/Army, the bankruptcy of Kiel’s “Big Tent Policy”, the contention for oil resources by different factions have led to the outbreak of conflict in Southern Sudan. As there is no effective mechanism of peaceful resolution of differences within the government and the ruling party, military struggle has become the last resort to resolve the political differences. This paper has also challenged the idea of “Tribal War”, believing that this idea cannot get to the reality of conflict in Southern Sudan.

New Policy Development of France’s Interference into Africa Since the Libya War

Li Mengjia, Fang Lexian

France has played an active role in African affairs, with African policy as the main part of its foreign policy. Since the Libya War, France’s interference policy toward Africa has assumed some new features. This paper focuses on the characteristic changes of France’s African policy since the Libya War in 2011, taking Frances’ military operations in Libya and Mali as cases, and tries to further reveal the new features of France’s interference policy toward Africa through analyzing its motivation, forms of interference and strategic considerations in these two military operations.

The Status and Features of the Chinese State-Owned Enterprises’ Participation in the Construction of African Transportation Infrastructure

Zhi Yuchen

Premier Li Keqiang suggested when visiting Africa last May that China would cooperate with Africa in constructing three major transportation networks in Africa, namely high-speed rail network, highway network and regional aviation network. As the Chinese state-owned enterprises have played and will continue to play the major role in the construction of transportation infrastructure in Africa, finding out how much involvement of the Chinese enterprises in this aspect will provide a sound base for their participation in the construction of the three grand networks. This paper has sorted out the status and features of the Chinese state-owned enterprises’ participation in the construction of transportation infrastructure in Africa over the recent years, believing that there are huge development potentials and spaces for the Chinese state-owned enterprises to help uplift the comprehensive planning and operational capacity of African regional transportation networks, boost the construction of African transportation infrastructure through these investments, and promote China’s equipment export by investing into these huge infrastructure construction projects.

Risk Analysis and Precaution for the Chinese Enterprises’ Investment in Myanmar

Lei Zhuning, Kong Zhijian

The investment of the Chinese enterprises in Myanmar is confronted with serious political and social risks, as shown in the forms of ethnic and religious conflicts within the country, the military still playing a major role in politics and economy, corruption and inefficiency in the government, uncertainties in the 2015 national election and the acceleration of the democratic process, all of which pose potential risks to China’s investment in the country. Chinese enterprises should enhance their awareness of risk prevention and avoid or deal with the risks through cultural communication, adopting localization strategy and diversified financing so as to reduce the adverse effects.

Lessons and Revelation of Crimea’s Quick Return to Russia

Chu Zhaogen

Russia’s promotion of Crimea’s quick return to Russia is its strong response to the strategic extrusion and security encirclement by the West, which has manifested a new game in geopolitics. Russia counterattacked by using various means including diplomacy, international law, economy and military intervention at American vulnerabilities, which reflected the limitations of American hegemony. This circumstance has provided China with valuable reference and revelation to break her peripheral dilemma.

Ensure Energy Security of the “New Silk Road” from the Comprehensive National Security Perspective

Li Zhiyong

With China’s fast economic development over the past years, how to ensure sufficient, stable and sustainable energy supply has become the key issue that affects China’s sustained economic growth, and enormous challenge for China’s diplomacy. The new generation of Chinese leadership, looking far ahead and aiming high, strengthening top-level design and taking the new internal and international security environment into consideration, has timely put forward the strategic initiative of joint construction of the Silk Road Economic Belt and the new comprehensive national security perspective. As energy security is the key part in the construction of the “New Silk Road”, China should, based on the comprehensive national security perspective, work out the relative strategies and tactics from national, enterprises and local government levels, to ensure energy security of the “New Silk Road” and the realization of the comprehensive national security perspective.

The Strategic Foundation for the Construction of the “Silk Road Economic Belt”

Li Qingyan

  Although the initiative of the “Silk Road Economic Belt” has offered unprecedented opportunities for the countries along the belt, to put this grand strategic concept into reality faces many challenges. Central Asia and South Asia are the pivots of this economic belt, which hold important positions on China’s grand peripheral chain, not only concerning the security of China’s western region, but also interacting closely with China’s western development strategy. To construct a new mode of regional cooperation with Central Asia and South Asia will lay a solid strategic foundation for China to promote steadily the construction of the economic belt.