| Jonathan Holslag.[J].国际安全研究(英文版),2016,2(1):88-100 |
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| Securing the New Silk Road |
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| 英文关键词: Chinese security thinking European perspective Sino-European
cooperation New Silk Road |
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| The renewed Chinese ambitions to develop trade along the different branches
of the Silk Road bring several new traditional and non-traditional security challenges.
The Chinese government has vowed to address them with new security concepts. Yet,
these concepts might not be adequate to advance China’s security interests. Moreover,
China seems to have difficulties overcoming the contradictions between different
security interests: the quest for prosperity and the safeguarding of security; China’s
economic aspirations and their consequence of becoming the largest economy; peaceful
development and unification with Taiwan and the regain of lost territories; and the
dilemma in the guiding diplomatic principles. As a result of these contradictions,
Europe faces three uncertainties: How will the tensions in the Pacific develop? How
will China seek to defend its interests along the New Silk Road? How will the tensions
in the Pacific affect China’s behavior in the common Eurafrasian interface? These
uncertainties bring about two more strategic choices for Europe: trying to continue its
work with China along the Silk Road and balancing; prioritizing the huge challenges
in the wedge of hardship and Europe’s immediate neighbourhood and responding calls
to join the United States in its rebalancing to the Pacific. This will make it difficult
to establish meaningful cooperation and to work towards burden sharing with the
European Union at the other end of the Silk Road. |
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