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China as a Great Power in Asia Pacific

China as a Great Power in Asia Pacific

Introduction

In recent years, the Asia-Pacific new layout with the United States to accelerate the deepening States, especially in the strategic competition between China and the United States added new uncertainties for the evolution of the Asia-Pacific regional security. The relations between big powers largely determine the evolution of the political and economic landscape of the Asia-Pacific region, managing this relationship to become the top priority of the Asia-Pacific regional security governance. In May this year, the State Councillor Dai Bingguo in the fourth China-US Strategic and Economic Dialogue meeting on the establishment of the new concept of "bilateral coordination between China and the United States is an official response. While the basis of the Sino-US bilateral coordination "between the major powers in the Asia-Pacific region stakeholders to build a multilateral coordination mechanisms that" big country coordination, key breakthrough for Security Cooperation in the Asia-Pacific region.

Discussion

Difficult substance of existing mechanisms to solve regional security issues In the Asia-Pacific regional security cooperation channels can be roughly divided into three categories: First, create a safety mechanism, functional cooperation, to build a regional community. Solve the overall effect of these pathways on security issues in the Asia-Pacific region; especially some of the effects of the major hot issues from the current situation are not optimistic, for two main reasons (Martin, 2012, pp. 56-57). First, there is a lack of multilateral mechanisms to solve the crisis in the region. In the Asia-Pacific, the vast majority of regional hotspot issues related to the military and security related to territorial sovereignty, involving military security cooperation is still limited to the bilateral level, the US-led military alliance. Multilateral level security-related cooperation and more confined to the non-traditional security areas, such as the East Asia Summit; comprehensive safety issues multilateral mechanism is difficult to achieve substantial breakthroughs in the military and security cooperation, such as the ASEAN Regional Forum (Elleman, 2001, pp. 120-125). Second, the major powers failed to play a leadership role in multilateral mechanisms. The Asia-Pacific region is one of the most concentrated areas of major powers in the world, and also the relations between big powers one of the most complex areas. However, multilateral security mechanisms are related to the Asia-Pacific region, ASEAN in a leadership position, such as the East Asia Summit, the ASEAN Regional Forum (ARF), and the Asia-Pacific Security Cooperation Council. Big country influence is everywhere in the Asia-Pacific, ASEAN's "small horse cart" difficult to substantially solve regional security issues, especially with the major powers at stake. In view of this, the Asia-Pacific region is in desperate need of a big country coordination mechanism designed to address traditional security and non-traditional security issues. The "big country coordination" applies to the Asia-Pacific security governance (Haw, 2006, pp. 12). "Big country coordination" refers to the security of a region important States in accordance with commonly accepted norms and rules through multilateral meeting to address regional security ...