Alliances, military balances and strategic policy

Table of Contents

8. How China thinks about national security

Introduction

New thinking in China’s national security strategy

Three major tasks for China in the twenty-first century

A period of important strategic opportunity

Keeping pace with global trends and safeguarding the common interests of all mankind

New concepts of security featuring mutual trust, mutual benefit, equality and coordination

Cementing China’s friendly ties with its neighbours and building good-neighbourly relations and partnerships with them

China’s peaceful rise

Chinese views on soft and hard power

How will China work in the UN Security Council in the future?

China’s current policy towards East Asia

China can cooperate with other countries through regional institutions

China’s strategic culture and its impacts on China’s security thinking

Chinese philosophy

China’s traditional national strategic culture

China’s military strategic culture

China’s foreign strategic culture

The impact of China’s strategic culture on China–US relations

Reference

9. China’s national defence: challenges and responses

The main bases and principles of China’s national defence policy

The main challenges facing China’s national defence

Challenge one

Challenge two

Challenge three

Challenge four

Challenge five

The responses of China’s national defence policy

Response one

Response two

Response three

Response four

10. China’s defence industries: change and continuity

Defence-industrial development in China

The established Chinese defence-industrial model

Defence industrialisation and autonomy

The Chinese military-industrial complex in the late 1990s

Reforming China’s defence industry, 1997 to the present

A disappointing track record

Chinese arms production: success in spite of failed reforms?

Conclusions

References