ENGAGING THE PERIPHERY
Shambaugh sure that the China’s growing regional influence derives not only from its hard power- its growing economic weight and military power – but its influence is also growing in ways aassociated with soft power.
§The first is the normative realm, where Beijing’s enunciation of the “new security concept,” “strategic partnerships,”.
§ The second area of potensial Chinese soft power lies in the realm of hihger education.
§In the economic sphere, China has been able, through a variety of efforts - ranging from responsible management of its currency during the Asian financial crisis, to timely grants of aid and loans.
MEASURING CHINAS’S NEW REGIONAL POSTURE
Engaging Regional Organizations
Shambaugh add that Many analysts have long argued that Asia, with its diversity of nations, societies , political systems, and security interests, is not ripe for regionalism and pan-regional cooperation, but this earlier prognosis. Asia is not like Europe and North or South America states.
Here the list of some regional organizations that followed by China:
ASEAN Plus One
ASEAN Plus Three
Asean Regional Forum
ASEAN Vision Group
ASEAN Senior Officials Meeting
Shanghai Cooperation Organization
Pacific Basin Economic Council
East Asia and Pacific Rim Nations
Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation
Asia-Europe Meeting
East Asia-Latin American Cooperation Forum
Council on Security Cooperation in the Asia-Pacific
Shangri-la Dialogue
Boao Forum
Improving Bilateral Ties
China – South Korea
Shambaugh explain that China strategy for building ties with South Korea is born not only of economic motive, but also strategic calculus. Such ties would also serve to offset any potential threat from the US-ROK alliance and US forces on the peninsula.
China- Vietnam
Shambaugh said that the two countries signed a treaty on the land border in December 1999, and another on the sea boundary in Gulf Tonkin in December 2000. They have also established a forum for discussion of unresolved conflicts related to the disputed Paralel and Spartly Islands.
China – India
Indian prime minister Vajpayee and Chinese premier Wen Jibao signed the overarching Declaration on Cooperation and a total of nine separate protocols for different spheres of bilateral cooperation – thus fully normalizing relations and pledging that their countries would work together for regional stability and peace.
China and Regional Security
According to Shambaugh, there are two primary “drivers” for this military moderanization program:
1.The desire to bulid and deploy a comprehensively modern military commensurate with China’s status as a major power.
2.The desire to build certain capabilities with various Taiwan military scenarios in mind.
This reading chapter from the author is really exciting, because we see that the author is try to write the chapter by using future scheme, it’s means that the author not only try to explain what he want to explain but also try to read what will be happened to China’s in the future and his “guess” is right and really happened to China right now. But, because of this chapter is launched in 2005, so there are some unrelevant things to China right now, for example is China now not only use its dominant soft power by cooperations but China right now try to use the hard power too, such as : the case of South China Sea and Senkaku Island with Japan. For the regional security also China now is not only focus on Taiwan, but China upgrade its military for its interest in South China Sea with some Asian countries.
