| Summary: | 碩士 === 淡江大學 === 國際事務與戰略研究所碩士在職專班 === 99 === The regional stability of Northeast Asia has been correlated with the situation in Korea Peninsula, on which the North Korea is a key player. This paper will look back on China''s policies from inside out at different leadership period based on national interest theories and historic and geopolitical relations between the two countries. Also important,in the face of a temperamental North Korea who tends to solve crisis through military threats, China''s responsive measures have to be considered with rational calculation and put to test in the global context, so as to meet its national interest and live up to its advocacy of a harmonious world while prevent North Korea from surpassing the brink of war.
Although China contributed to the Six-Party Talks in 2003, making the mechanism an important platform for solving the North Korea nuclear problem, and mediated Peninsula issues with a philosophy of benevolence towards neighbors, its strategies were to certain degree constrained by the lack of alternatives, inefficiency of preemptiveness and improper crisis management. As a result, China had to take contingency plans as auxiliary measures when specific incidents emerged in the region. In short, there are still Spaces for China to keep up its influence. How to maintain bilateral or multi-lateral interactions with related countries will have important effects on the overall results of China''s policies.
Geopolitics is the guideline that decides North Korea problem to be a core issue.concerning China''s national interest. Whatever happens that may cause major change in North Korea, be it the regime turning into a nuclear power, a abrupt collapse, internal upheaval or outbreak of another Korean war, the best scenario China can ever imagine that is also in related countries'' best interest would be to pursue a denuclearization of North Korea and maintain the status quo. From another perspective, China''s efforts to diplomatic mediation and leading the Six-Party Talks were made out of the consideration to contain the U.S. expansion in the region and to prevent Japan from following suit in seeking nuclear capability while, at the same time, maintain the status quo that enables her to secure maximum interest by keeping equidistance with Korea and North Korea, so as to create environment in favor of its economic growth. In short, consideration of national interest is the dominating logic that shapes China''s behavioral modes.
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