Central Asia has long emerged as a hotspot for both the regional and extra-regional powers for two main reasons:its geopolitical location in the middle of Eurasia between Europe,South Asia,the Middle East,Russia and C...Central Asia has long emerged as a hotspot for both the regional and extra-regional powers for two main reasons:its geopolitical location in the middle of Eurasia between Europe,South Asia,the Middle East,Russia and China,and their abundant and mostly unexplored natural resources.Sitting on huge untapped hydrocarbon potentials the Central Asian geographical entity in recent years has offered enormous opportunity and appeal for global countries and emerged as a grand chessboard for regional and extra-regional players.China is one such new pole in the new great game without which any geopolitical and geo-economic debate on Central Asia would be incomplete.With this prelude,this article attempts to analyse China's rise in Central Asia and its strategies to strengthen its position in the heartland region by discarding the much-hyped great game thesis and argues that China’s rise is unparallel and unmatched as testified by the recent Belt and Road Initiative of Beijing.展开更多
This paper seeks to place China’s ongoing maritime transformation in a larger context,and thereby clarify the strategic implications of its pursuit of maritime capabilities.It argues that,given their amphibious natur...This paper seeks to place China’s ongoing maritime transformation in a larger context,and thereby clarify the strategic implications of its pursuit of maritime capabilities.It argues that,given their amphibious nature,rimland powers are bound to encounter more challenges in the pursuit of maritime transformation,and more importantly,such pursuits easily backfire and cause undesirable ramifications.This paper examines the underlying mechanism which led to the failed maritime transformation of rimland powers in modern history.Then,based on the strategic lessons from modern history,it examines the strategic challenges concomitant with China’s pursuit of maritime capabilities,and contends that,if China hopes to escape similar fate,it has to pay serious attention to three strategic issues.展开更多
文摘Central Asia has long emerged as a hotspot for both the regional and extra-regional powers for two main reasons:its geopolitical location in the middle of Eurasia between Europe,South Asia,the Middle East,Russia and China,and their abundant and mostly unexplored natural resources.Sitting on huge untapped hydrocarbon potentials the Central Asian geographical entity in recent years has offered enormous opportunity and appeal for global countries and emerged as a grand chessboard for regional and extra-regional players.China is one such new pole in the new great game without which any geopolitical and geo-economic debate on Central Asia would be incomplete.With this prelude,this article attempts to analyse China's rise in Central Asia and its strategies to strengthen its position in the heartland region by discarding the much-hyped great game thesis and argues that China’s rise is unparallel and unmatched as testified by the recent Belt and Road Initiative of Beijing.
文摘This paper seeks to place China’s ongoing maritime transformation in a larger context,and thereby clarify the strategic implications of its pursuit of maritime capabilities.It argues that,given their amphibious nature,rimland powers are bound to encounter more challenges in the pursuit of maritime transformation,and more importantly,such pursuits easily backfire and cause undesirable ramifications.This paper examines the underlying mechanism which led to the failed maritime transformation of rimland powers in modern history.Then,based on the strategic lessons from modern history,it examines the strategic challenges concomitant with China’s pursuit of maritime capabilities,and contends that,if China hopes to escape similar fate,it has to pay serious attention to three strategic issues.
