China Military Strategic Thinking Studies-Case on Diaoyutai Islands Sovereignty Dispute

• Main Authors: Liao Chia-Wei, 廖家葦
• Other Authors: Ma Cheng-Kun
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2014
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/65u7cg

碩士 === 國防大學政治作戰學院 === 政治研究所 === 102 === The military is an extension of politics and its purpose is to ensure a nation’s core interests—national security and development—are safeguarded. Under this premise, most nations must take into consideration various psychological and material factors to achieve its strategic objectives. As a rising power expanding outwards, China has to increase her contact with major powers like America and Japan because of her political system, historical and geopolitical relations with others, which also raises the possibility of conflict with other nations. How to deal with the rising of China in the new century with her vast market, resources, closed authoritarian government and rapidly growing military powers has become the focus of both Asia and the rest of the world. Those willing to trade with China feel both hope and fear. As a saying goes, from one small clue one can see what is coming. The Diaoyutai sovereignty dispute has complex dimensions in history, geopolitics, international politics, and diplomatic interactions among the world’s major countries in their pursuit of power. This paper intends to explore China’s military logic—how she might act militarily in the face of territorial disputes, from the aspects of history, culture, geopolitics, and the development of military technology, based on Diaoyutai sovereignty dispute which is becoming the world’s hotspot once again.