Huge Task to Improve Japanese Public＇ s Dim View of China

after Shinzo Abe became Japanese prime minister again, the nation -adopted a much tougher China policy. While Abe has continued hispredecessor＇s aim of trying to contain China, he has also injected confrontation into ties. Particularly when Sino-Japanese relations are at a deadlock because of territorial disputes, and despite opposition from various parties, Abe has visited the Yasukuni Shrine. Although this provocative act is the consequence of many factors, both domestic and foreign, one that cannot be ignored is the Japanese public＇s hostile view of China     

China＇s Grand Periphery Strategy

If we wish to discuss China＇s Periphery Strategy we must first be clear the boundary of the surrounding areas.     

Great Reform of China＇s Diplomacy

With the implementation by China of the policy of reform and opening to the outside world, China＇s diplomacy has undergone a great reform of profound significance, and has made outstanding achievements. China＇s development and its diplomacy supplement, enrich and promote each other. The former provides good conditions for the latter＇s development, while the latter safeguards China＇s sovereignty and territorial integrity, creates a peaceful international environment for the country＇s cause of socialist construction with Chinese characteristics, and makes remarkable contributions to the great undertaking of reform and opening-up and the Four Modernizations.     

Reflections on China＇s Periphery Strategy

Over the past few years, along with the changing situation in China＇s periphery, regional mechanisms and forums have been consolidating.     

The ROK＇s Perception of China＇s Role Interviews with the ROK General Public

North-East Asia is of strategic significance to major world powers such as the United States, China, Japan and Russia. It is a region full ofproblems, such as the North Korean nuclear crisis ano me uni...     

China＇s Flourishing Multilateral Diplomacy

In the early stage after its founding, the People＇s Republic of China established bilateral relations with a series of socialist countries and a small number of Western countries. In order to break up the encirclement of New China by the Western hostile forces headed by the United States, New China began participating in international affairs. It took part in the two Geneva Conferences and the Bandung Conference, and Premier Zhou Enlai visited ten African countries.     

Public Diplomacy and China＇s National Image

Broadway DebutA 60-second publicity video on China was broadcast on huge TV screens in New York＇s Times Square in January 2011.     

Thirty Years of China＇s Diplomacy： Trajectory and Challenges Ahead

The 60 years since the birth of New China can be divided into two equal parts with the second 30 years of Chinese diplomacy reflecting tremendous changes in the country and its society. And its central task in this period boils down to building a peaceful external environment for the domestic modernization drive. In the process, based on independence and the world-known Five Principles of Peaceful Co-existence, taking shape is a diplomatic strategy that is both all-directional in scope and rich in Chinese characteristics. Since the advent of the 21st century, the country has defined four areas of focus in its diplomacy and put forward the watchword of ＂peaceful development.＂ Looking ahead, China is facing new challenges in its diplomacy of how to preserve harmonious relations with the outside world and set up a Chinese model reflecting its own core values, thereby investing with it greater international appeal and value of universal application.     

China＇s Neighboring Diplomacy Demands Top-level Design

Prresident Xi Jinping＇s recent attendance at the Shanghai Cooperation Organization （SCO） and the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation （APEC） Summits, visits to Central Asian and Southeast Asian nations, together with Primer Li Keqiang＇s visits to South and Southeast Asia, followed with his attendance at the China-ASEAN Summit, and coupled with China hosting top leaders from neighboring countries, have all sent a strong signal to the outside world of the greater priority accorded to China＇s sun＇ounding areas by the new leadership. Needless to say, such a flurry of diplomatic activities is far from enough. In the future, China needs to turn this priority into a top-level design for a long-term program propped up by an unswerving management.     

A Harmonious World and China＇s New Diplomacy

The concept of"a harmonious world,"a phrase used by the incumbent leadership of China to encapsulate China's diplomatic goals,has become a new guideline for China's diplomatic activities.By applying this concept, Chinese diplomacy has taken a new turn,pushing China into a new and powerful role in world affairs.China's diplomatic effort,however still faces numerous problems,challenges and risks,requiring the Chinese leadership to refine the concept of"harmonious world"through creative thinking and application.     

China＇s Neighboring Strategy Goals and Challenges

China＇ s foreign relations with its neighbors are integral to the country＇s economic development and the direction of its rising political influence. China＇ s core goals in the region are to create a favorable regional environment for sustainable economic development;     

China＇s Diplomacy： Ten Features

After three decades of reform and opening up, China＇s diplomacy displays the following ten features： 1. the three interlocked goals of development, sovereignty and responsibility; 2. maintaining ＂a low profile＂ while ＂acknowledging some accomplishments＂; 3. a principled, yet restrained stance in pushing for an improved international order. 4. multi-tiered, mutually complementary diplomatic endeavors; 5. four close-knit diplomatic fronts; 6. the intrinsically compatible concepts of ＂a harmonious society＂ and ＂a harmonious world＂; 7. the renewed principle of non-intervention; 8. the evolving ＂people first＂ concept thinking; 9. guidelines with continuity and innovation; 10. an orderly, gradualist diplomacy diplomatic transition.     

China＇s Economic Security at Stake

National economic security refers to the freedom of a sovereign state from any internal or external threats, either actual or perceived, to its economic interests. The notion varies in meaning from one country to another, due to their differences in security environment, cognition and defense capabilities. It took quite a long time for China to form its own definition in an overall, profound manner, with controversy still lingering among divergent interest groups and/or schools of thought. As the author sees it, formidable internal and external challenges threaten the country in this regard. We should maintain awareness of the risks from monopoly-driven mergers and acquisitions of foreign capital in a growing number of our industries.     

Problems and Challenges in China＇s Peripheral Security

An unprecedented complicating and sharpening situation has been developing in China＇s peripheral security since the end of the Cold War in 1991.     

Theory and Practice of China＇s Central Asia Diplomacy

When formulating its Central Asia diplomacy,China should take four basic factors into consideration; or China should formulate it on the common basis of the following four basic factors:1, China's overall diplomatic thinking and principles.2,     

China＇s Confidence-Building Measures： Practice and Prospect

Confidence-building measures are those taken between countries to enhance mutual understanding, reduce distrust, ease tensions and prevent the outbreak of war. They refer to stipulations agreed upon between countries on exchanges and checking of information related to military forces and activities and promotion of cooperation in the military field, etc. In a narrow sense, confidence-building measures refer to the various measures adopted in the military field and are related directly to improving security environment, including arrangements of measures of exchange, transparency, restriction and checking, etc. while in a broad sense, confidence- building measures cover political, economic, military, diplomatic, cultural, religious and ideological fields, which, in an overall manner, are taken to strengthen international security, improve the security environment, ease regional tensions and increase trust among countries. In formulating the measures, emphasis is laid on abiding by the Charter of the United Nations and the Five Principles of Peaceful Coexistence, as well as other norms governing international relations, such as no threat by force or dismembering territorial integrity and political independence of other countries by force, no interference in other countries＇ internal affairs, peaceful settlement of disputes and equality of sovereignty between countries, enhancing mutual trust through close political contacts, economic links, technological exchanges and military contacts, etc.     

Approaches to China＇s Current Maritime Disputes

China is one of the largest Asian countries,sharing land borders with 14 countries and sea borders with 6 countries.It has a 22,000-kilometer land border,an 18,000-kilometer mainland coastline and a 14,000-kiolmeter island coastline.Maritime frontiers have a great impact on the national