新加坡国防战略与防务外交

Singapore’s National Defense Strategy and Defense Diplomacy

新加坡的国防战略是与其独特的地缘位置和国际与地区安全环境相一致的。自独立以来,新加坡始终对国家安全保持着极高的敏感度,避免因缺乏战略纵深和防御能力而成为其他国家侵略的对象。伴随着对国际和地区安全环境的认知变化及自身军事和经济实力的增长,新加坡国防战略大致经历了三个阶段,相继提出了“毒虾”“豪猪”和“第三代武装力量”等战略理念,并在不断发展进程中。为了进一步优化国家安全环境,新加坡还积极发展与其他国家的防务外交,主要借助东盟平台推进东盟防长会议和东盟防长扩大会议以及其他各层级的多双边防务合作,如五国联防组织,并在美国、澳大利亚等国进行军事训练。中国与新加坡的防务合作符合新加坡的国家利益和战略理念,双方通过双多边各层级防务官员及智库交流与对话,以及双多边军事培训和演习等渠道都进行了积极尝试,并取得了较多成果,对促进地区安全与稳定具有较强的建设性意义。

Singapore’s defense strategy is consistent with its unique geopolitical location as well as international and regional security environment.Since independence,Singapore has always been keeping extremely sensitive to national security,avoiding to be the target of other countries due to its lack of strategic landscape and defensive capabilities.To this end,with the change of recognition of the international and regional security environment,as well as the growth of its military and economic strength,Singapore’s national defense strategy has gone roughly through three stages,and has successively proposed strategic concepts of“poisonous snake”,“porcupine”and“the third generation of armed forces”,and currently still exploring new ideas and thoughts.In order to further strengthen the national security environment,Singapore is also actively developing defense diplomacy with other countries,mainly relying on the ASEAN platform to promote the ASEAN Defense Ministers Meeting and the ASEAN Defense Ministers Meeting Plus and some other multilateral defense cooperation at various levels,such as the Five Power Defense Arrangement,and military trainings in the United States,Australia and other countries.The defense cooperation between China and Singapore is in line with Singapore’s national interests and strategic concepts.The two sides have actively tried to promote exchanges and talks between defense officials and think tanks at various levels,as well as joint military trainings and exercises,and achieved a lot to enhance the bilateral comprehensive cooperative partnership with the times.It also has a strong constructive significance for promoting regional security and stability.