CHINESE PEACEMAKING OPERATIONS

Chinese Peacemaking Operations

Abstract

In this study we try to explore the concept of Chinese Peacemaking Operations in a holistic context. The main focus of the research is on Chinese Peacemaking Operations and its relation with United Nations. The research also analyzes many aspects of Chinese Peacemaking Operations and tries to gauge its effect on United Nations and rest of the world.

Chinese Peacemaking Operations

Introduction

Since the late 80s of last century, China has participated in various operations of peacekeeping United Nations, providing military, police and civilians. In September 1988, Beijing officially applied to join the United Nations Special Committee for Peacekeeping Operations. In April 1990, five military observers were sent to the Organization of the Truce Supervision in the Middle East, the senior United Nations. Moreover, in the period of 1992-93, Corps of Engineers sent twice to the Transitional Authority in Cambodia United Nations, marking the first time movement of troops. On January 12, 2000, a first body of Chinese police arrived in East Timor, which is now also present in different countries and regions. In 2002, coinciding with the beginning of the mandate of President Hu Jintao, China formally acceded to the mechanism of availability for these operations.

In 2003, it sent a contingent of engineers and doctors to the mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo, the first time China has provided training troops to an operation in Africa. That same year, China sent to the mission in Liberia the largest of its units, consisting of more than five hundred troops. The first time China participated in a UN operation in the western hemisphere, sending a police officer training, was in Haiti in 2004. Currently, of the 17 active peacekeeping missions, China has a presence in 11 of them.

China's decision to engage increasingly in these operations is not a fluke. On the contrary, it is a manifestation, on the one hand, the significant change operated in relation to its exterior perception, surpassing not only the insulation, own the Maoist period (1949 -1978), but also that of ancient China, proud of itself, lived with its back to the world. Moreover, this involvement is inseparable from the same strategy that led China to join the World Trade Organization (WTO) that has aroused the interest in hosting the Olympic Games in Beijing which are recently closed, or the World Expo 2010 in Shanghai. China with the limitations imposed by their level of development, now wants to participate in world affairs and be accepted as a stakeholder in the global management. Finally, evidence of a progressive assumption of responsibility internationally, knowing that their current uniqueness allows them to exercise as a developing country that, like many others, both may contribute troops to missions as, unlike of them have a voice in the debates and decisions in this regard should address the Security Council United Nations, where it has a permanent seat and veto power, increasing the level of confidence in their own abilities.

Similarly, the strategy favored by the spectacular growth of ...