ABSTRACT
TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION
Ⅰ.WHY DOES CHINA SEEK TO BECOME A MAJOR MILITARY POWER?
A.Threats of national sovereignty and territory
a.Internal Threats
b.The Taiwan Issue
c.Sovereign Territorial Claims
B.China needs to protect and support its large appetite for energy
C.A means of asserting its international stature and responsible role
D.China’s revenge on its humiliating history
Ⅱ.WHAT ARE THE MAJOR CHARACTEIUSTICS OF CHINA’S EXPECTED MILITARY POWER?
A.China’s growing military budget and questions surrounding its purpose
B.China’s goal of informatization by 2020
C.Ground forces
D.China’s Naval Force
E.China’s Air Force
F.China’s Nuclear Force
G.China’s Cyber Force
H.China’s future military challenges
Ⅲ.HOW IS CHINA LIKELY GOING TO USE ITS GROWING MILITARY CAPABILITY?
A.Non combat operations or Military Diplomacy
a.Participation in un peacekeeping operations
b.Participation in Counter-Piracy Mission on the Somalian Coast
.Military exchanges,joint exercises and foreign assistance
c.Arm Transfers
B.China’s combat operations,a threat or a reality?
a.A war involving China conceivable?
b.What would trigger China’s ultra nationalism to enter combat operations?
c.The Sino-Japanese case:Can it get worse?
d.Interdependence and war,the possibilities
e.Japan and China’s economic interdependence
Ⅳ.WHAT ARE THE IMPLICATIONS AND IMPACTS OF CHINA’S MILITARY AMBITIONS?
A.Balance of Powets in the Asian Pacific
B.China’s military rise conducing to a reshape of its neighbors policies
C.China’s strategic attitude towards regional rebalancing
a.Is China’s ambition to modify the status quo?
b.The Chinese diplomatic and security strategy
D.Recommendations for necessary appeasement
a.Closer ties-Increased regulation and international law
b.Multilateral frameworks
Conclusion
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声明
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