chinese security

Each student is required to write a paper that spans 14 to 16 pages, typewritten and double-spaced.

2. GUIDELINES for the PAPER are as follows:

(1) Choose any of the issues/events/challenges related to the Chinese security and foreign policy, which bear relevance to the regional and international relations. Below are just enumerated EXAMPLES you MAY be interested in. Of course, you can choose YOUR OWN topic for your paper.

FOR EXAMPLE:

• Continuity/discontinuity of the Chinese security development between different leadership generations.

The further expansion of Chinese foreign policy from regional (Asia-Pacific) to international interests;
How the government of Xi Jinping has pursued a more confident great power foreign policy agenda;
China’s growing economic power in an era of global financial uncertainty and the return of protectionism;
China’s shifting power relationship with the United States and Japan under President Donald Trump and Joe Biden;
The deeper engagement of Beijing with a growing number of international and regional institutions and legal affairs;
An comparative analysis of Chinese cross-regional diplomacy across Africa, Latin America, the Middle East// , and Russia / Eurasia, as well as Oceania and the Polar regions.
• The views of China’s new leadership under Xi Jinping on the Chinese international and regional relations.

• Differences in the Chinese countermeasures between the US pivot to Asia and US Indo-Pacific strategy
• Does the US still contain/encircle China?
• Trade ‘wars’ between China and the US and their economic security
• The rising tensions in the East and South China Seas between China and her Asian neighbors over territorial disputes.
• Chinese military modernization and Security dilemma in Asia.
• The ups and downs of the cross-Strait relations between Taiwan and China and its effects on the ‘Taiwan Question.’
• The Hong Kong ‘experimentation’ for the ‘One Country, Two Systems’ and its effects on Taiwan.
• The Hong Kong ‘political development’ and Chinese dilemma//
• The Japanese reinterpretation of Article 9 of the Constitution and the Sino-Japanese security relations.
• The Sino-Japanese competition over African continent.
• BRI (Belt and Road initiative) and AIIB (Asian Infrastructure Initiative Bank).
• Trade war between the US and China
• The validity of the twin triangular security models in East Asia: China-Russia- and North Korea vs. US-Japan-South Korea //
• The Chinese ethnic minority nationalities (Tibetan, Uyghur/Uighur, etc.) and the Chinese regional security.
• The US “One China Policy” and the Taiwan Relations Act: American duplicity?
• Uyghur and Sino-Central Asian relations
• Tibet and Sino-Indian relations.
• The validity and backdrop of the “China’s rise and threat” theory
• The effects of the Chinese ‘scientific development and harmonious society’ on her regional and international relations.
• The “Taiwan Question” and Sino-US security relations.

China as a “stakeholder” in world affairs (security and economy).
China’s military modernization and Japan’s remilitarization and the effects of these two developments on regional and global security.
North Korea nuclearization and Chinese role in East Asia.
The Chinese pursuit of “common grounds while reserving differences” in its relations with the US.
“China (military) threat” theory and Indo-Pacific strategy.
The effects of the joint missile defense (MD) between US and Japan on the Chinese security policy.
The geopolitical and strategic justification of the Chinses security policy in Asia.
Chinese ‘historical’ perception of Japan and its effects on the Sino-Japanese relations.
The Sino-Japanese rivalry and its effects on the regional security environment.
The geopolitical and strategic justification of the Six-party Talks that involve China, Russia, Japan and US, among others, for the ‘denuclearization’ of the Korean Peninsula.
US and Japan’s characterization of Taiwan as their “common strategic interest” and its effects on the Chinese foreign and security policy.
What are the range of common interests and basis for cooperation, if any, between China and US?
The U.S. relations with Central Asian countries and its effects on the Sino-Russian relations.
The growth of Japanese military role in international community and its effects on Chinese security policy.
Differences between pre- and post- September 11th in the Sino-US relations.
The effects of US arms sales to Taiwan on trilateral security relations among US, China and Taiwan.
Chinese perception/suspicion of American efforts to spin a web of security alliance around China’s borders.
The strengthened Japan-US alliance and its effects on Chinese military and security policy.
ASEAN and China.
North Korea’s nuclear and missile tests and their effects on the security relations among China, Japan, South Korea and the US.
Competition’ between China and Japan over Africa: FOCAC (Forum on China-Africa Cooperation) vs. TICAD (Tokyo International Conference of African Development).
The Japanese pursuit for a ‘normal’ country and its effect on the Chinese security and foreign policy.
The effects of a ‘possible’ Japan’s constitutional amendment (Peace Constitution/Article 9) on the Chinese security.
Sino-Indian relations and regional balance of power in Asia.
Hong Kong and its democratization.
‘Socialist democracy’ in China and the Chinese political development.
Chinese perception of the Japanese ‘historical legacy’ and its effects on the Sino-Japanese relations.
The Sino-Japanese competition over ASEAN.
Continuity/discontinuity of the Chinese security development between different leadership generations ETC.

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