Shaping China's ideal security environment

Author: Tang Shiping
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Publish Date: 2003-12-01
Features: This book is a monograph that attempts to systematically and comprehensively examine the overall objectives and means of China's national security strategy. The author proposes the overall security strategy objectives that China can and should pursue, namely what China's ideal security environment should be. The author also explores China's specific strategies and overall strategic concepts on regional affairs and issues. While striving to make the book clear and easy to understand, the author also aims to provide analysis and insights on every issue discussed. The author particularly hopes readers can appreciate the systematic nature of the grand strategy proposed here and the interrelationships between the chapters of the book. A nation's grand strategy must be a long-term strategy. This means that although policymakers will have to adjust the specific implementation of the strategy and even some strategic objectives based on the development of certain situations, the grand strategy should have long-term feasibility and should not lose its value due to the development of certain situations. Therefore, while the book will strive to reflect the close relevance between the grand strategy and the dynamics of international politics, the author is more concerned with whether the grand strategy proposed here is a long-term strategy that China can implement, rather than focusing too much on whether the book reflects new current affairs dynamics.