The Abstracts of Vol.2,2021
Releasing Time：03.16.2021Source：亚非发展研究所英文
The Change of World Order: From Hegemony to Inclusive Multilateralism
Qin Yaqing
One of the greatest changes in today＇s world is the end of American hegemonic order. The United States is still the most powerful country in the world, but its predominant status as the hegemonic power is over. Gone with it is hegemony as an order of the world. Although a heated discussion is under way concerning a bipolar world order, it is unlikely because there are few material and institutional conditions that would satisfy a bipolarity. Furthermore, a world artificially torn apart is legitimately groundless and international society, including China and the United States, will not accept such a definition of the world. The post-hegemonic world is one of plurality, with a multipolar power structure, a multi-layered pattern of governance, and a multi-dimensional distribution of ideas. A plural world calls for an inclusive multilateralism, featured with multilateral institutions to build and maintain peace and promote development, coordination of multi-actors to reach international cooperation, and balance of global and national interests to protect the global commons.
COVID-19 and the Change of International Order
Yao Yuan,Cai Congyan,Zhao Guangrui,Zhang Shi＇ao and Chang Na
The COVID-19 pandemic accelerates the historical process of“profound changes unseen in a century”and has deeply affected the changes and adjustments of the international order. In the post-epidemic era, the international order in East Asia will usher in new opportunities for the development of regionalism and multilateral cooperation. The epidemic has strengthened the EU＇s awareness of“Strategic Autonomy”. The international legal regime, which has been impacted during the epidemic period, needs to be further improved and developed for the function as an important tool to stabilize the international order in the future. In order to analyze the impact of the epidemic on the change of international order, and to promote relevant research, this journal has commissioned five papers. Scholars from the Collaborative Innovation Center of South China Sea Studies and School of Government of Nanjing University, and Law School of Fudan University analyze the international order in East Asia and Europe in the post-epidemic era, the new situation of“geopolitical law”faced by China, the impact of the epidemic on the international legal regime and the impact of ancient European plagues on the social development process.
Sea Lane Security Legal Basis and Improvement of Non-traditional Security Governance Cooperation——From the Perspective of the 21st Century Maritime Silk Road
Shi Chunlin
At present, the non-traditional security governance cooperation along the 21st Century Maritime Silk Road has a certain legal basis. The United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea and special conventions formulated by the International Maritime Organization, as well as the bilateral and multilateral agreements of relevant countries and regions, has set up the main institutional basis for governance cooperation in a certain sense, and achieved the effect of good governance. But at the same time, there are some defects and limitations in relevant laws and regulations.The lack, irrationality, inapplicability, inoperable and contradiction of the relevant provisions, as well as the different conventions and agreements that the relevant countries participate in, will affect the function of the existing laws and regulations, which need to be further revised and improved. Therefore, on the basis of making full use of the reasonable content of the existing laws and regulations, we should further revise or update the relevant laws and regulations. In this process, we should give full play to China＇s role in shaping the concept of laws and regulations, improving the system and realizing the path, so as to promote the cooperation of non-traditional security governance along the sea lanes to achieve good results and achieve long-term stability.
The Situation in the South China Sea and the Prospect of its Development
Liu Lin
In 2020, the situation in South China Sea is evolving rapidly toward turbulence from the relative stability after the South China Sea Arbitration . Due to the impact of various regional and extraregional factors including the Covid-19, the strategic game between China and the US in the South China Sea has greatly intensified, with increasing risk of military confrontation; concerned ASEAN countries did not slow down steps of conducting unilateral actions; the legal struggle in the SCS reached a new height since the arbitration; and countries outside the region got more involved in the issue of SCS. Under such circumstance, the prospect of the situation in the South China Sea is not optimistic. There are some important factors that will influence the future development of the situation in the SCS, including the new US government＇s policy toward the SCS, the development of the legal struggle, and whether China and concerned ASEAN countries can properly handle their differences and push forward the negotiation on the Code of Conduct in the South China Sea. However, China and ASEAN countries have consensus on maintaining peace and stability in the SCS, and China and US can be expected to make progress in crisis management and control, all these will give positive momentum to the stability in the SCS.
The China-Laos Strategic Community of Shared Future: Progress, Challenges and Tactics
Liu Ying
The China-Laos community of shared future is the first bilateral one put forward by Xi Jinping since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China. The China-Laos strategic community of shared future not only has important symbolic meaning, but also has rich connotation, among which ensuring the ruling of the Communist Party is the core of it. In the past seven years, The China-Laos strategic community of shared future has made great progress in all aspects. Of course, the building of the strategic community of shared future between China and Laos still faces some challenges and difficulties. It is necessary for the two countries to deepen their governance experience exchanges and inter-party exchanges, comprehensively promote the construction of the economic corridor between the two countries, deepen people-to-people exchanges and cooperation in an all-round way, promote the all-round upgrading of China-Laos relations.
On the Jurisprudential Defects of the US Position on China＇s Air Defense Identification Zone
Cao Qun
U.S. Indo-Pacific Command has recently published a series of“Blue Papers”, part of which articulates U.S. views on the establishment of Air Defense Identification Zone (ADIZ), and clarifies particularly the applicable targets of U.S. ADIZ regulations. Aiming to criticize China＇s East China Sea ADIZ, the“Blue Papers”concentrate on the differences between Chinese and American ADIZ rules regarding whether a state can apply its ADIZ procedures to foreign aircraft not intending to enter national airspace. Probably because of lack of professional knowledge, drafters of the“Blue Papers”have made a lot of technical mistakes—they even neglect the fact that U.S. ADIZ regulations do not represent“the majority”of international ADIZ practice, and there is no sufficient legal evidence for them to criticize China＇s ADIZ regulations. The U.S. side made a strategic miscalculation that China purposed to challenge its dominant position in terms of“international rules”. Speaking of ADIZ rules, if not intending to purely propagandize“China threat theory”through willful misinterpretation on China＇s ADIZ regulations, the U.S. side＇s miscalculation is likely to be largely caused by technical flaws, especially lack of efforts being made to analyze its own ADIZ regulations and other states＇ADIZ practice.