Peng Nian
Recently, the trip to the Chinese President of the Middle East and Africa has attracted great attention from the outside world. Many analysts have regarded the foreign visits of Chinese leaders as the in the face of the US "Broken ANDRDQUO;Act of.Although the author does not deny this statement, from the perspective of the root cause, this may be more attributed to an important part of China's re -balance strategy, rather than China ’s expedient measures to respond to pressure in the United States.
In fact, from the perspective of China's diplomatic strategy in the past, regional imbalances are a very prominent problem.At the global level, Chinese diplomatic decision makers value North America, Asia and Western Europe.From the perspective of regional perspective, the eastern region of Asia is more valued by China.Even in East and Southeast Asia, China's focus is extremely different.
This diplomatic strategy with a significant order pattern is closely linked to the geographical location of China and its own strength.In short, as a large country in East Asia, China certainly needs to pour a lot of foreign strategic resources to East Asia to maintain its advantages and influence in the region.In fact, many Chinese scholars believe that the primary breakthrough point of China's rise is in East Asia.In other words, only if China has built an absolute advantage in this area, can it be possible to achieve a real rise in the true sense.
However, as China ’s strength continues to rise, it only pays attention to the surrounding Andrdquo;" one acre and three -point land andrdquo.The expansion of interests requires China to extensive resources to safeguard its overseas interests all over the world. This objective demand requires China to change the regional unbalanced diplomatic pattern before and in order to seek a more balanced regional diplomatic strategy.
In this context, China's Andrdquo; the initiative came into being, although the initiative was widely considered to be the need for excess capacity in China to export excess capacity and has certain strategic significance.Under the framework, China's regional diplomatic imbalance has been significantly improved.An obvious fact is that through the "Belt and Road andrdquo; and China's diplomatic territory, it has been greatly expanded, and China's Andrdquo; extending to every corner of the world.
Take the trip to the Middle East and Africa as an example.In the past China's diplomatic strategy, the Middle East did not account for an important position.Of course, this is not to say that the Middle East is not important to China.Instead, the Middle East has important strategic significance for China's energy security and expanding foreign influence.However, in the case of relatively limited strength in China, China has not enough energy and ability to intervene in Middle East affairs.
However, in recent years, China ’s attention to the Middle East has increased significantly.China ’s diplomatic mediation on hot issues such as the Iranian nuclear agreement and the Syrian civil war, and the cooperation of China and the Middle Eastern countries in Andrdquo;In the Middle East, Andrdquo's positive signal again.And this obviously will continue to improve the strategic position of the Middle East in China in China and promote the implementation of diplomatic re -balance strategies in China.
Although Africa's position in China's diplomatic strategy has gradually increased, the outside world has accused China of cooperation in energy resources such as non -diplomatic focusing on non -diplomatic focus on oil and minerals.Because of this, China ’s diplomacy in Africa shows an imbalanced dilemma of“ uneven hot and cold Andrdquo.P>
However, after visiting Senegal and Rwanda, this imbalanced pattern has been greatly changed.Senegal is West Africa's "portal Andrdquo; and China's key areas of Africa's diplomacy are not in West Africa. Therefore, the trip to Senegal is an important signal that China" advances into Andrdquo;Regional imbalanced dilemma.In addition, Senegal's natural resources are not rich, especially oil resources.China incorporated it into Andrdquo; and the strong development of the relationship with Senegal that the establishment of relations with African countries is not just oil and other mineral resources.
Rwanda is located in the central and eastern parts of Africa, and it is not the main area of China for Africa.In addition, Rwanda's resource reserves are not abundant, and the geographical location is extremely closed.These are limited to the interaction and cooperation between China and Rwanda.The visit has led to a sharp rise in the status of African inland countries in China in China.At least, in the future of China -Africa relations, Rwanda and the entire China and Africa will get more attention.This will also reverse China's imbalance in African diplomacy and promote a more balanced development of China -Africa relations.
Prior to the opening of the Middle East and African itinerary, Prime Minister Li Keqiang of the State Council of China attended the opening ceremony of the Eighth China -Central Eastern European National Economic and Trade Forum, and said that he would promote the "16+1 cooperation andrdquo;Recently, China's important actions to re -balanced European diplomacy indicate that China ’s resource distribution in Europe will no longer be concentrated in developed countries in Western Europe, but continue to tilt to Central and Eastern European countries. In addition, China to New Zealand and other Oceania countriesAnd the attention of South American countries such as Chile and the cooperation between the two parties are gradually increasing.
In general, with the continuous rise in China's national strength and its gradual expansion of its overseas interests, China's diplomatic strategy will emphasize regional balance, and pay more attention to those countries that "forgotten Andrdquo;The balanced strategy, China can maintain and expand its overseas interests, reduce the series of negative impacts brought about by the dilemma of imbalances, but also fully expand economic and foreign influence, becoming a big country with global influence.
The author is an assistant researcher at the South China Sea Research Institute
With the continuous rise in China's strength, just pay attention to the surrounding Andrdquo of "one acre, three -pointers, and three -pointers.The expansion of interests requires China to extensive resources to safeguard its overseas interests all over the world. This objective demand requires China to change the unbalanced diplomatic pattern of the previous region and seek a more balanced regional diplomatic strategy.P>
