Abstract: | A National Security Council, the symbol of the National Security Leadership System (NSLS) of a modern country, plays a central role in national security decision-making, organizational coordination and strategic consultation. The reform of the NSLS is crucial for national security and security at regional and global level. Since 2013, China, Japan, South Korea, the three major states in Northeast Asia, have inaugurated profound reforms in their NSLSs through different approaches to remodeling their system structure, strategic goal and operational mechanism, and with significant impacts on regional security, e.g. China-Japan relations, the security situation in the Korea Peninsula, as well as the regional security structure. In terms of its NSLS reforms, China needs to avoid the effects of bureaucracy, take a strategic stance toward NSLS reform and solidify the legal basis for the reform. |