China Strategic Review
China Strategic Review - 11-12/2020
Release Time:2020-12-20
To Embark on a New Journey and Start a New Pattern of Pursuing High-quality Development
Yang Yiyong

Not long ago, the Fifth Plenary Session of the 19th CPC Central Committee passed the "proposal of the CPC Central Committee on formulating the fourteenth five year plan for national economic and social development and the long-term goals for the year 2035". This not only unifies the basic thinking of development in the next five years, starting a new journey and pursuing a new pattern, but also depicts a bright prospect of development in the next five years, with high quality economy and high quality people's livelihood.

I. Embarking on a new journey to upgrade in an all-round way

In 2021, China will realize a historic leap from building a moderately prosperous society in an all-round way to starting a new journey of building a modern socialist country in an all-round way. In the 30 years from 2020 to the middle of this century, the construction of a modern socialist country in an all-round way is divided into two stages: the first stage is from 2020 to 2035, on the basis of building a moderately prosperous society in an all-round way, to continue to struggle for 15 years to basically realize socialist modernization; the second stage is from 2035 to the middle of this century, on the basis of basically realizing modernization, to continue to struggle for 15 years to build China into a powerful modern socialist country that is prosperous, strong, democratic, civilized, harmonious and beautiful.

II. Starting a new pattern to meet challenges

New concept, new stage and new situation will inevitably give birth to new pattern. The Fifth Plenary Session of the 19th CPC Central Committee calls for the formation of a strong domestic market and the construction of a new development pattern. During the "14th five year plan" period, China should adhere to the strategic basis of expanding domestic demand, accelerate the cultivation of a complete domestic demand system, organically combine the implementation of the strategy of expanding domestic demand with the deepening of supply side structural reform, and lead and create new demand with innovation driven and high-quality supply. Promoting the formation of a new development pattern with domestic circulation as the main body and domestic and international double circulation promoting each other is proposed according to the changes of China's development stage, environment and conditions, and is a strategic choice to reshape China's new advantages in international cooperation and competition.

III. Pursuing high quality development and innovation

High quality development is a new statement put forward for the first time in the report of the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, which shows that China's economy has shifted from a stage of high-speed growth to a stage of high-quality development. On March 5, 2018, the government work report submitted to the first session of the 13th National People's Congress for deliberation focused on high-quality development and put forward nine major plans, including the deep promotion of supply side structural reform. The Fifth Plenary Session of the 19th CPC Central Committee clearly pointed out that the theme of the 14th five year plan must be to promote high-quality development and comprehensively promote national economic and social development to a new level.

IV. Pursuing High Quality Development to improve people's livelihood and promote fairness

Economic development and social development are two sides of the same coin. High quality economic development and people's livelihood development complement each other. The Fifth Plenary Session of the 19th CPC Central Committee clearly pointed out that in the next five years, China must vigorously improve the quality of people's life and comprehensively improve the level of social construction. General secretary Xi Jinping pointed out that in the whole development process, China should pay attention to people's livelihood, protect people's livelihood and improve people's livelihood, so that the reform and development results will be more and more equitable to benefit the broad masses of the people, so that the people can gain more sense in the process of building, sharing and developing together. The construction of people's livelihood is an important aspect of the construction of socialist society and an important basis for promoting social harmony and social fairness and justice.

The Development and Impact of Quantum Technology
Li Chang

Speaking at the twenty-fourth collective learning of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, general secretary Xi Jinping pointed out that in recent years, the rapid development of quantum technology has become the frontier of the new round of technological revolution and industrial transformation. Accelerating the development of quantum science and technology plays a very important role in promoting high-quality development and ensuring national security.

In recent years, technology giants have announced that they have made important progress in the field of quantum computer. Google and other technology companies announced in 2015 that their "d-wave" quantum simulator has achieved 100 million times the speed of traditional computers in solving some problems. Although it is not considered to be a real quantum computer, it has shown the great potential of quantum computer. At the end of 2017, IBM announced the launch of the world's first 50-qubit quantum computing prototype, and the competition in the field of quantum computing entered a critical stage. In January 2018, Intel announced that it is developing a 49-qubit test chip, while Google has launched a 72-qubit quantum processor chips "Bristlecone". Some people think that if the quantum computer can effectively manipulate about 50-qubits, it can carry out the operation of 2 to the 50th power in one step, and realize the so-called "quantum supremacy". In October 2019, the team of Google announced that it had successfully demonstrated "quantum supremacy", saying that a quantum computing system it developed took about 200 seconds to complete the computing tasks that traditional computers need 10000 years to complete.

On August 18, 2019, the Washington Post published an article entitled "The quantum revolution is coming, and Chinese scientists are at the forefront" by Jeanne Whalen, which said, "From Pan Jian-Wei’s labs at the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), in Shanghai and Hefei, the 49-year-old leads a team of 130 researchers." In 2017, the journal Nature named him one of “ten people who mattered this year,” saying he had “lit a fire under the country’s efforts in quantum technology.” At a conference in Shanghai in the summer of 2019, Pan Jian-Wei detailed how China uses qubits (usually atoms, electrons or photons) to protect its communications from hackers - one of the areas where China seems to be ahead of the West. Pan Jianwei and other Chinese researchers are making continuous achievements in developing various quantum computing technologies such as optical and cold atom systems and superconducting systems, hoping to entangle hundreds of qubits in the next 10 years. He said that China's quantum computing is like "bamboo shoots" and "our explosive growth has reached the transition point". Pan Jianwei said in an article published on October 19, 2020 that Quantum science and technology is a strategic field related to national security and high-quality development. We must hold its innovation and development firmly in our own hands.

To Enhance Efficiency in the Proper Use of Funds and Public Cultural Services
Wei Yifang/Yang Yiyong/He Qian

I. The current situation and characteristics of public cultural financial investment

During the 13th Five Year Plan period, great progress has been made in the construction of public culture in China. The modern public cultural service system has been basically completed, the level of standardization and equalization of basic public cultural services has been steadily improved, the network of cultural facilities reflecting local and national characteristics has been basically formed, and the public cultural supply basically matches the mass cultural demand.

(1) The total amount of investment continued to grow rapidly

(2) The downward trend of the proportion of the total investment has initially reversed

(3) Continuous optimization of financial input structure

II. Problems and challenges

(1) The differentiation of efficiency stage is obvious, "supporting institutions and people" is not as good as "supporting services and affairs"

(2) Regional performance difference is obvious: the efficiency of capital use in weak areas has not been improved with investment

(3) Insufficient supply capacity at the grassroots level: emphasis on hard aspects rather than soft aspects, structural imbalance between supply and demand of public cultural services

III. Countermeasures and suggestions to enhance the use efficiency of public cultural financial funds

(1) Innovating and optimizing investment mode with "supporting service"

First, in the use of financial funds in the field of public cultural services, we should accelerate the transformation from "supporting institutions and people" to "supporting services and affairs". Second, publicize and promote the beneficial experiences and practices of advanced regions, and play a leading role in demonstration.

(2) Focus on "double base" to improve investment mechanism

First, improve the division of powers and expenditure responsibilities among governments in the field of public culture, and enhance the financial support for the supply of basic public cultural services at the grassroots level. Second, promote the implementation of high-quality service resources and improve the sustainability of grass-roots public cultural services. Third, improve the public cultural service demand expression and feedback mechanism, and promote the service supply and demand matching.

(3) Using information technology to improve investment efficiency

Xi Jinping Thought on Diplomacy is a Key Part of Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era
Chen Yiyuan

Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the Central Committee of the CPC, with Xi Jinping as its core, has formed and established general secretary Xi Jinping thought on diplomacy. Xi Jinping thought on diplomacy is a key component of the new era of socialism with Chinese characteristics. It is the theoretical basis for carrying out the diplomacy of the great power with Chinese characteristics, leading the belt and road initiative, building a new international relationship and community with shared future for mankind. It has great significance in the times and guidance in practice. “Following the principle of achieving shared growth through discussion and collaboration, and pursuing the Belt and Road Initiative” was formally incorporated into CPC Constitution by the 19th Congress of the Communist Party of China in September 2017.

I. The significance of Xi Jinping thought on diplomacy

Xi Jinping thought on diplomacy is a significant achievement in the diplomatic theory construction of new China. It is a fundamental guideline for the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation and the promotion of China's major-country diplomacy. Xi Jinping thought on diplomacy is the inheritance of Marx doctrine and the practice of new China's diplomacy, and is the inheritance of the excellent thought of China's traditional culture, and also an important innovation in diplomatic theory and practice. Xi Jinping thought on diplomacy has answered scientifically what are major issues of major-country diplomacy with Chinese characteristics and how to carry out major-country diplomacy with Chinese characteristics. China has clearly defined the guiding ideology, basic principles, main tasks, strategic strategies and mechanism guarantee of the external work under the new situation, and has formed a scientific theoretical system with rich, profound thoughts and complete system. Xi Jinping thought on diplomacy is the inheritance and development of China's diplomatic policy and fine tradition in China's fundamental policy in the past 70 years. It is also an innovation and surpass of the traditional western international relations theory over the past 300 years, and it is a guide for China's diplomacy in the new situation.

II. The main contents of Xi Jinping thought on diplomacy.

The main contents of Xi Jinping thought on diplomacy were summarized as "persistent efforts in ten aspects" at the central foreign affairs conference held from 22 to 23 June 2018. The "persistent efforts in ten aspects" are the key to understand Xi Jinping thought on diplomacy, which comprehensively expounds the strategic objectives, basic principles, main paths and fundamental guarantees of the diplomacy of major socialist countries in the new era.

First, persistent efforts should be made to strengthen the centralized, unified leadership of the CPC in its diplomatic work in maintaining the authority of the CPC Central Committee. This is the fundamental guarantee for the success of China’s diplomacy as the country’s success hinges on the CPC.

Second, persistent efforts should be made to promote China’s major-country diplomacy, which is tasked with realizing the rejuvenation of the Chinese nation. This is the historic mission bestowed upon China’s diplomatic work in the new era.

Third, persistent efforts should be made to build a community with a shared future for humanity, with the aim of safeguarding world peace and promoting common development. This is the overall objective of China’s diplomacy in the new era.

Fourth, persistent efforts should be made to uphold socialism with Chinese characteristics as the fundamental means by which we will strengthen our strategic confidence. This is the basic requirement that our diplomatic work must meet in the new era.

Fifth, persistent efforts should be made to pursue the Belt and Road Initiative in line with the principle of achieving shared growth through discussion and collaboration. This is the overarching design for China’s opening-up and international cooperation and will remain so for a considerable period of time to come; it is also an important platform for implementing the concept of a community with a shared future for humanity.

Sixth, persistent efforts should be made to follow a path of peaceful development based on mutual respect and mutually beneficial cooperation. This is a basic principle that must be upheld in China’s diplomatic initiatives on a long-term basis.

Seventh, persistent efforts should be made to develop global partnerships by improving our diplomatic layout. This is an important quality of China’s diplomacy in the new era. Promoting coordination and cooperation with other major countries will help us in our efforts to build a framework for major-country relations characterized by overall stability and balanced development.

Eighth, persistent efforts should be made to reform the global governance system according to the principles of fairness and justice. This is an important target of China’s diplomacy in the new era.   

Ninth, persistent efforts should be made to safeguard our national sovereignty, security, and development interests, with our core national interests as the inviolable bottom line. This is the starting point and ultimate goal of China’s diplomacy.

Tenth, persistent efforts should be made to create a unique brand of diplomacy for China by combining the fine traditions and contemporary features of our diplomatic work. This is the symbol of China’s diplomatic spirit.

III. The contribution of Xi Jinping thought on diplomacy.

The formation and development of Xi Jinping thought on diplomacy are the product of the integration of the tenets of Marxism and traditional Chinese culture, China's understanding of the contemporary world and China's great power diplomacy practice.

The U.S. with Superiority in Ten Areas Proved to be a Failed State in the Mishandling of the COVID-19 Pandemic
Li Changjiu

The Covid-19 crisis highlights the shortcomings of the US system and the failure of American democracy. Once again, the United States is at a crossroads. The epidemic has exposed the paper tiger side of the United States, and proved the only superpower with superiority in ten areas a failed state in mishandling of the COVID-19 Pandemic.

I. Superiority in ten areas

(1)The world's largest food exporter

(2)Be independent of oil supply and control global oil market

(3)Rich water resources

(4)The US dollar as the cornerstone to maintain its global hegemony

1. It controls two major international financial institutions

2. It imposes seigniorage tax on the rest of the world

3. It dominates global trade with its US dollar

4. It controls the international payment system

5. It makes huge profits from the speculation of "money makes money"

6. The United States is the largest currency manipulator

(5) Continue to strengthen its military strength and military expansion

(6) With 720 national laboratories and 200 biological laboratories

(7) More than 5000 universities in the United States

(8) With Large enterprises controlling domestic finance and global high-end industry chain

(9) Basic research as its cornerstone of science and technology power

(10)As a technological power by standing on the shoulders of giants

II. The reason behind the United States’ failure to address the pandemic

The United States has many advantages and conditions mentioned above, but it is the country with the largest number of newly diagnosed cases and deaths. There are many reasons for the failure of anti epidemic in the United States.

(1) The deep defects of American Political system

Based on a calculation from New York Times commentator Seth Stephens-Davidowitz, Of the roughly 37 million boomer males, sons of a governors is 6,000 times higher the rate of the average American becoming a governor, while sons of senators had an 8,500 times higher chance of becoming a senator than an average American male boomer. Researchers from Princeton University and Northwestern University in the United States analyzed about 1800 policies enacted in the United States from 1981 to 2002 and concluded that the United States has become an oligarchy dominated by its economic elite.

(2) Financialization of the economy leads to the increased income gap

Since the early 1980s, the financial economy and the tax policy of "robbing the poor to help the rich" have led to the widening gap between the rich and the poor in the United States.

After the real estate tycoon trump became the president of the United States, the money returned to the rich and enterprises was not used for reinvestment, nor was it used to raise wages. Instead, it was used to fund stock purchase plan, which put the money into the pockets of already wealthy Americans. On June 20, 2020, Robert Reich, the former US secretary of labor and professor of public policy at the University of California at Berkeley, pointed out in an interview that inequality existed in the United States 30 years ago, but it has never been as serious and extreme as it is now.

(3) The Covid-19 crisis is the failure of American democracy

In the triple crisis of epidemic, economy and race, trump not only left the epidemic behind, but also did not start to alleviate the racial inequality. He still focused on the fierce fight with Biden, the Democratic presidential candidate.

(4)Its global hegemonic status and influence have declined rapidly

During Trump’s four years in office, the trump administration has implemented unilateralism and protectionism, provoked global trade friction, even trade war and financial war, and withdrew from a long list of institutions and pacts, including Paris Climate Agreement, Iran nuclear deal, Arms control treaties with Russia and the World Health organization. After the end of the Second World War, the global hegemony and influence of the United States declined sharply.

China-Latin America Relations in the Face of the Centennial Changes of the World
Jiang Shixue

In the past two or three decades, China Latin America relations have made great progress. It is necessary for China and Latin America to take some measures to actively take advantage of the opportunity provided by the centennial changes to promote the development of bilateral relations. China should understand Latin America from a strategic perspective, strive to eliminate the harm of the epidemic to China's image, and actively seek new thinking of Sino-Latin American cooperation, and properly cope with the pendular foreign policy of Latin American politics. Latin American countries should have a correct understanding of China's international status and China's role in its development process, eliminate their misreading, misunderstanding and misjudgment of China, and strive to improve its investment environment. As bilateral relations are two-way, in addition to taking necessary measures, China and Latin America should also make concerted efforts to take some consistent measures. Belt and Road initiative and bilateral trade relations should be promoted in Latin America on the basis of bringing their comparative advantages into full play, minimizing the impact of "U.S factor" in Sino-Latin American relations, and promoting the partnership between China and Latin American countries to make greater contributions in bilateral relations.

The Status Quo and Prospects of China, Japan, and South Koreas Smart City Development
Ge Jianhua

Smart city is a hot topic about urban governance in East Asia in 2019, that is, the application of new generation information technology to all walks of life in the city, so as to realize the deep integration and effective operation of urban informatization, industrialization and urbanization. Its purpose is to alleviate the "big city disease", improve the effectiveness of urban management and improve the quality of life of citizens. In 2019, countries in East Asia are competing for the layout of smart city construction, and have made relevant efforts around the construction of smart city in combination with their own national conditions. In 2020, Covid-19 has swept the world into a fast lane. The China, Japan and South Korea are in strong social complementarity in the construction of smart city due to their different social development stages. They are effective in solving the problem of urban diseases. Meanwhile, efforts are being made to explore the possibility and necessity of strengthening cooperation between the third sides.

Since the 18th National Congress of CPC, based on the accurate grasp of the changes in the international and domestic situations, the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at the core stressed the promotion of modernization of the governance system and governance capacity, and put forward a series of new ideas on national governance. The proposal to improve the "modernization of national governance system and governance capacity" has brought great opportunities for the development of smart urban governance. In the report of the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the concept of building a "smart society" was put forward. According to the understanding and consensus of experts and scholars at home and abroad on the smart society, it is emphasized that the smart society is a society with deep integration of digitization, networking and intelligence, a highly perceived society, a highly interconnected society, a highly digitized and accurately calculated society, and a highly transparent and intelligent society.

Since IBM put forward the concept of "smart earth" in November 2008, it has triggered an international upsurge of smart city construction. At present, more than 1000 smart cities have been launched or under construction, mainly in Europe, North America, East Asia and some countries in South Asia. According to the prediction of Frost & Sullivan, the market scale of smart city in the world will reach 2 trillion US dollars by 2025. Singapore, Copenhagen and Barcelona have made remarkable achievements in building smart cities. East Asia is relatively stable in politics and economy. There are a large number of people, forming a large number of large urban agglomerations. In East Asia, a large number of cities in China, Japan and South Korea are building smart cities and launching their own plans. Cities in East Asia are generally faced with the problem of more people and less land. However, at the same time, many local governments in East Asian countries are willing to and actively participate in the construction of smart cities, hoping to quickly solve the difficulties and difficulties encountered in the process of urban development and people's pursuit of a better life through a new generation of technological revolution. How to carry out the sustainable development of urban construction and economy and solve many contradictions in the development has become a strategic problem for governments to study and solve. To this end, East Asian countries are competing in the layout of smart city construction, and are making relevant efforts around the construction of smart city in combination with their own national conditions. As China, Japan and South Korea are in different stages of social development, they are highly complementary in the construction of smart cities, laying a solid foundation for future tripartite cooperation and condensing into East Asian forces.

Chinese Consular Protection in the Middle East against the Backdrop of COVID-19
Zhang Dandan/Sun Degang

COVID-19 was spread rapidly worldwide at the end of 2019, which posed new challenges to consular protection in China. The new covid-19 epidemic has hit the Middle East severely. The economic downturn, rising unemployment rate, difficulties in the people's livelihood, the recurrence of regional conflicts and the increasing number of terrorist attacks in the Middle East have brought social and political risks to the future, which will have a profound impact on the future development of the middle East. Chinese funded enterprises and overseas Chinese in the Middle East will inevitably be affected. Consular protection is facing new tasks and new propositions.

I. COVID-19 in the Middle East and its challenges to Chinese consular protection

The Middle East has been plagued by war, sanctions, poverty and other problems for a long time. It has also experienced the invasion of cholera, Middle East respiratory syndrome, malaria, tuberculosis and other infectious viruses. The public health system is relatively weak on the whole, and the medical and health conditions are generally poor. The task of conflict management and economic governance is arduous, and the public health governance system has not yet been formed. It can be said that except for Israel and a few Gulf countries, the overall medical level in the Middle East is difficult to cope with the impact of the epidemic.

II. Major security risks faced by Chinese citizens and enterprises in the Middle East under the epidemic situation

Under the epidemic situation, the security threats of Middle East countries present greater uncertainty and superposition, and the security situation is more complex. The risks faced by China's overseas entities are complex and diverse. They may be threatened by traditional security risks such as terrorist attacks, social unrest and infectious diseases, as well as non-traditional security risks such as "xenophobism" and negative public opinion.

III. New concept and mechanism of China's consular protection in the Middle East under the epidemic situation

In the new historical period, the means of consular protection in China are more diversified, the resources available are more abundant, the consular protection capacity of the Chinese government has been greatly improved, and the overseas Chinese security system composed of six pillars of "legal support, mechanism construction, risk assessment, security early warning, preventive publicity and emergency response" has been continuously built. In recent years, the CPC Central Committee and the State Council have adhered to the concept of "people-oriented", coordinated the domestic and international situation, established the mechanism of "inter ministerial Joint Conference on the safety and protection of Chinese citizens and institutions abroad", handled a series of major overseas emergencies involving Chinese citizens and institutions, and achieved positive results. Under the promotion of the joint conference mechanism, China's provinces, cities and autonomous regions have made great progress Districts and municipalities directly under the central government have also established a consular protection coordination mechanism. The consular protection mechanism has been implemented in the provincial, municipal and grassroots levels, and gradually established a five in one overseas security work linkage network with Chinese characteristics, including the central government, local governments, embassies and consulates abroad, enterprises and citizens. In addition, while China's consular protection mechanism has made great progress, the current consular protection still faces some urgent problems in capacity-building, such as the inefficient internal coordination mechanism, the inadequate legal protection, the consular staff shortage, and the special fund shortage. The challenges faced by China in the Middle East's Consul protection are increasing under the epidemic. It exposes the shortcomings of China's overseas livelihood project and also becomes a major problem that can not be ignored. This requires the academic circles to evaluate the achievements of China's consular protection mechanism comprehensively and objectively, at the same time, actively learn from other countries' advanced consular protection experience, and put forward a constructive and forward-looking road map for the construction of China's consular protection system in the Middle East.

On Chinas Partnership Diplomacy in the Middle East in the 21st Century
Sun Degang

By the end of 2017, 105 national and regional organizations had established partnerships with China. There are 36 in Asia, 16 in Africa, 17 in Latin America, 28 in Europe and North America, and 8 in Oceania. The Middle East is one of the regions where China's partner countries have increased the most in recent years. There are 25 countries in the region, including Arab countries, Israel, Iran, Turkey and South Sudan, which can be divided into four sub regions: 9 Gulf countries, 5 Eastern Mediterranean countries, 6 Red Sea countries and 5 Maghreb countries. Among them, 15 countries have established strategic partnership with China, including seven countries in the Gulf region (Saudi Arabia, Iran, UAE, Iraq, Qatar, Oman and Kuwait), two countries in the eastern Mediterranean region (Turkey and Israel), four countries in the Red Sea region (Egypt, Jordan, Sudan and Djibouti) and two countries in the Maghreb region (Algeria and Morocco). This reflects the balance of geographical representation.

The partnership between China and the Middle East countries has both universality and particularity. The particularities are as follows: first, the big powers have created a fragile multipolar pattern in the Middle East, and the security situation is always uncertain, which makes the partnership between China and the Middle East countries often disturbed by the adjustment of the Middle East Strategy of foreign powers; second, the geopolitics of foreign powers in the Middle East are the same as the "religious politics" and "blood politics" of the countries in the region ”Third, the partnership between China and the Middle East countries is mainly aimed at safeguarding national sovereignty, establishing political friendly relations, expanding commercial interests, and participating in the governance of the Middle East. There are difficulties in coordination and policy docking between the domestic departments of the two sides.

Both the United States and Russia hold the view that the essence of international anarchy has not changed in the 21st century; conflicts, confrontation and competition are still the mainstream of inter state relations, the liberal international order has lost its function, and realpolitik has returned to the world stage. Therefore, the United States and Russia divide the countries in the Middle East into "friends and enemies". The basic logic is to seek peace by strength and absolute security by armament, but in the end, it makes itself more insecure. China emphasizes no conflict, no confrontation, respect for each other's core interests and mutual benefit, and opposes zero sum game and winner take all.

I. An analysis of the motives of China's partnership diplomacy in the Middle East

Since the 21st century, China has established partnership with 15 Middle East countries, including comprehensive strategic partnership, innovation comprehensive partnership, strategic partnership and strategic cooperation. The partnership between China and Middle East countries is reflected in the increasing number of partner countries, the continuous improvement of partner level and the continuous enrichment of cooperation connotation. When China establishes a partnership in the Middle East, it will weigh various factors, among which the capacity (economic strength, regional influence, political stability) and willingness (economic dependence and political friendliness) of the target country are the most important considerations.

II. The main types of China's partner diplomacy in the Middle East

On the basis of the existing research, this paper divides the 25 Middle East countries into three categories: comprehensive big country, medium power and small country, and points out that China has adopted the way of differential management in its partnership with Middle East countries. Specifically, the ability (economic strength, regional influence, regime stability) and willingness (trade dependence, political friendliness) of Middle East countries to carry out strategic cooperation with China determine their status in China's Middle East partnership network. According to the overall weight of the target countries, China has carried out differential management of the partnership. This paper divides the Middle East countries into four categories: fulcrum countries, node countries, key countries and stronghold countries.

III. China's concept characteristics and Prospect of partner diplomacy to Middle East countries

First, China's partnership with Middle East countries advocates a new concept of security. Second, China's partnership with Middle East countries advocates "promoting peace through development". Third, China's partnership with Middle East countries helps to strengthen the principle of sovereignty. Fourth, China's partnership with Middle East countries seeks to "make friends.". Fifth, China pursues "soft checks and balances" in its partnership with Middle East countries.

Looking forward to the future, China's partnership with Middle East countries also faces many challenges. First, many Middle East countries in the security dilemma hope that China can play a greater role in security, but the focus of China's partnership with Middle East countries is still on the economic and political levels, so as to avoid being involved in regional disputes. The demand of security public goods of partner countries and the supply of economic public goods of China are not completely matched. Second, China's partnership with Middle East countries will inevitably be affected by the factors of big powers outside the region. Third, how China can play its strategic partner's advantage in participating in security affairs in the Middle East still needs to be further explored. Fourth, the partnership between China and the Middle East countries needs to be more creative in terms of establishing rules and regulations.

Conclusion

China's establishment of partnership stems from the understanding that alliance diplomacy is no longer in line with the trend of the times. In the Middle East, both the military alliance network and the sectarian front network are essentially group confrontation, advocating a clear-cut confrontation between friends and enemies. As an emerging socialist power and non aligned country, China has transcended the political system and ideological differences, and built a global partnership network on the basis of "non aligned partnership" and seeking common ground while reserving differences, which is in line with China's diplomatic philosophy and the interests of all parties.

In the 21st century, the connotation of China's partnership diplomacy has quietly changed. The object of China's partnership has shifted from big countries and neighboring countries to small and medium-sized countries in the Middle East, Africa and Latin America, from bilateral cooperation to multilateral cooperation, from partner diplomacy to sovereign countries to partner diplomacy to regional and international organizations, and from entity partners to issue partners. Partner diplomacy with Chinese characteristics has also been enriched and developed in practice. China's bilateral and multilateral partnership diplomacy in the Middle East is an important part of China's global partnership network in the 21st century.

A Follow-up of the Latest Development of Global Terrorism and Anti-Terrorism in the Post-Islamic State Era

Yu Ze

VI. Africa becomes a disaster area of terrorism

In addition to West Asia and North Africa, where international terrorist forces invaded earlier and where the so-called "Arab Spring" originated, the vast deserts in the East and west of Africa and the mountainous rural areas with weak grassroots political power have gradually become the bases and strongholds of the Islamic state for recruiting troops and making a comeback.

As mentioned earlier, although the Islamic state lost its land in Syria, it waiting to making a comeback, which has been expanding with Al Qaeda to form a rapid reorganization of the army in the form of secret networks, and to accelerate penetration into the African continent. Now it has spread to 13 African countries, and has controlled lands at least in two countries and even established puppet regime. They have adopted the old ways of fighting the enemy, and are moving in a mysterious and uncertain way, making use of the Covid-19 pandemic. According to the "global terrorism index 2019" released by the Australian Institute of economy and peace, half of the 18 countries listed as "very high" and "high" in the world are from the African continent. In a word, the East, West, north, South and north of the African continent have formed a pattern of mixed disasters and troubles.

Understanding and Promoting Cross-Strait Integrated Development in the Enormous Change of Cross-strait Relations
Wang Jianmin/Ni Xia

Cross strait integration and development is a major policy proposed by the CPC Central Committee to promote the peaceful development of cross strait relations and promote the peaceful reunification of the two sides. In recent years, the central and local governments have issued a series of policies and measures to promote cross-strait economic and social integration and development, and have made some progress and achievements. However, the great changes in the situation of China-US relations and the development of Taiwan's internal affairs bureau, especially under Tsai’s strategy to unite with the United States against Chinese mainland and integrate Taiwan into the Indo-Pacific strategy, Tsai Ing-wen's authorities actively cooperated with the United States, resisted and obstructed the development of cross-strait integration, and even promoted the "decoupling" of cross-strait economy and the "disconnection" of cross-strait culture, which brought great impact and challenges to the peaceful development of cross-strait relations and the development of cross-strait economic and social integration. In this severe and complex situation, how to understand and promote the development of cross-strait integration requires new thinking, new judgments and new paths.

1、 The severe situation and main challenges faced by the current cross-strait integration and development

(1) Tsai's attempt to promote the cross-strait economy "decoupling" is increasingly obvious

(2) Tsai authorities set up more political and legal obstacles to the development of cross-strait economic and social integration, especially established a set of detailed legal system to curb and hinder the development of cross-strait integration

(3) Constantly prevent and guard against mainland capital entering Taiwan

(4) The social and political atmosphere of "opposing Chinese mainland and hating mainland China" on the island is more profound

2、 How to understand the issue of cross-strait integration and development under the great changes in the situation across the Taiwan Strait

(1) Continue to strengthen the correct path and historical trend of cross-strait integration and development

(2) Adhering to and promoting cross-strait integration and development is in line with and conducive to the overall interests of the country

(3) Avoid being emotional, not lightly using "economic sanctions" against Taiwan, and avoid falling into the trap of cross-strait economic "decoupling" set by the Tsai administration

(4) Adhering to and promoting cross-strait economic and social integration will help to defuse hostility and reduce cross-strait tension

(5) With the understanding of the huge market and policy support from mainland, Tsai's attempt to decouple the cross-strait economy is hard to obstruct the basic development pattern of cross-strait economic exchanges and cooperation.

3、 How to promote the development of cross-strait integration under the great changes in the situation across the Taiwan Strait

(1) At the present stage, adhering to the development path of cross-strait integration with one-way integration as the main and mutual integration as the supplement

(2) Focusing on cross-strait economic integration, one of the key points to promote the development of cross-strait integration is to consolidate and develop the existing cross-strait industrial chain and supply chain

(3) Integrating the experience of Taiwan's economic and industrial development and the concept of enterprise management

(4) Actively implementing policies and measures to benefit Taiwan, and the policies should be detailed and specific

(5) Making good use of the existing platform to promote cross-strait integration and development

(6) Give full play to the role of enterprises and markets in the development of cross strait economic integration

(7) Leading the development of cross-strait integration with new ideas, providing more non discriminatory facilitation measures for Taiwan compatriots to integrate into the mainland society, and embody the spirit of ownership of Taiwan compatriots

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