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Vo1. 38, No. 3, May/June 2020

Abstract

3 The Development of Antarctic Legal Regulations and Policy
Recommendations for China: A National Security Perspective
WU Hui and ZHANG Xinbo
[Abstract] The National Security Law of P.R.C. (2015) explains the meaning and
implications of China’s national security at the legal level, of which the maintenance
of national security in such new domains as Antarctica is part and parcel. China’s
Antarctic exploration shall abide by a series of Antarctic legal regulations whose
development is of strategic importance to China’s national security interests in
Antarctica. The main contents of Antarctic legal regulations include peaceful use
and demilitarization, shelving and freezing sovereignty disputes, freedom of
scientific research, conservation of marine living resources, maritime security and
overall environmental protection. In recent years, with the extension of the human
“footprint” to the more pristine parts of the continent, the Antarctic legal regulations
face some cutting-edge issues like the continuous efforts made by Antarctic
claimants to strengthen their own respective territorial positions, the potential
development of rules and regulations concerning Antarctic tourism, non-governmental
activities, aviation activities, special conservation areas, and renegotiations of the
Antarctic environmental damage liability system. These trends will surely exert a
far-reaching impact on China’s national security interests in Antarctica. China can
safeguard its interests more efficiently in Antarctica through enacting specific
legislation, issuing relevant policy documents and actively exercising its
international law rights.
[Keywords] national security, Antarctic legal regulations, trends of development,
China’s countermeasures
[Authors] WU Hui, Vice President, Professor and Doctoral Supervisor, University
of International Relations (Beijing, 100091); ZHANG Xinbo, Assistant Research
Fellow, Institute of Maritime Security, China Institutes of Contemporary
International Relations (Beijing, 100081).

21 Security Anxiety, Signaling and China’s Strategic Reassurance to
Southeast Asian Countries
CAO Dejun
[Abstract] For a rising China, it is of great importance to win the trust and
confidence from its neighboring countries by adopting systematic strategic
reassurance and projecting an image of responsible major country with self-restraint.
However, in the practice of good-neighbor diplomacy over the past two decades,
Southeast Asian countries have been beset by worries and misgivings about China’s
true intentions due to power asymmetry and geographical proximity. Since 2008,
Southeast Asian countries have become particularly concerned about China’s “core
interests” discourse, the increasing number of diplomatic sanctions and multilateral
initiatives with so called “unclear intentions”. Faced with the growing security
concerns of Southeast Asian countries, China has taken a proactive approach to
dispelling their doubts and boosting their trust levels by releasing reassuring signals

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