China's Maritime Security Strategy. The Evolution of a Growing Sea Power/Стратегия морской безопасности Китая. Эволюция растущей морской державы

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The phrase “strong maritime power” is a popular political slogan in China that has appeared frequently in official documents in recent years. It has also been widely discussed by the media and scholars since 2012, as shown in Figure 1.1 . This was also the year when Hu Jintao declared the goal of China’s strong sea power construction during the Eighteenth National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party ( Hu, 2012 ). The most common explanation of this is that securitization in the Asia-Pacific region has made China vulnerable to various maritime issues, including vindicating claims to territory, territorial waters, and maritime space, preventing the emergence of new threats – such as Japan or India – curtailing United States (US) military’s freedom of action throughout East Asia, and limiting the access of the US to East Asia’s raw materials, markets, and investment opportunities. Therefore, Beijing needs to attain regional dominance through accumulation of sea power.

Contents
Acknowledgment
Preface
List of figures
List of tables
List of abbreviations and acronyms
1 Introduction: what makes China the sea power today?
2 Understand maritime security strategy in China
3 Deng Xiaoping’s era: a limited maritime security agenda
4 Jiang Zemin’s era: when maritime security became a concern
5 Hu Jintao’s era: the rise of China in the “maritime century”
6 Xi Jinping’s era: constructing a strong maritime power
7 Conclusion: China – the twenty-first century sea power
Appendices
Glossary
Index