The Study On East Asian Security Mechanism Construction From The Perspective Of Cooperative Governance Theory

At present,political exchanges among East Asian countries have become increasingly close,regional economic integration has continued to advance,and the regional security situation on the whole has maintained a basic trend of peace,stability and peaceful development.However,due to the overlapping of various complex factors,negative factors affecting regional peace and stability are also growing rapidly.The complex international situation,sluggish recovery of the world economy,the highly converging interests and frequent strategic interactions of major powers in the region have led to prominent problems such as pan-security tendency,lack of collective identity and regional security public goods.The security situation in East Asia remains grim.East Asian countries share broad common interests in economic development,regional stability,non-traditional security and other fields.To strengthen regional cooperation and exchanges and increase interdependence is a common objective requirement.Although they have a positive attitude towards East Asia security cooperation,no formal regional security mechanism has been established,and the existing cooperation mechanisms also face problems such as low efficiency,lack of stability,and low enforcement power in multilateral cooperation.The diversified and multi-level forms of security governance in East Asia need to be cultivated.How can we form a security order that can accommodate various competitive and even conflicting security issues? Building a stable multilateral security cooperation mechanism to promote security governance in East Asia is a constructive and operable way.It is the shared vision of East Asia to seek cooperation and common development,promote mutual trust and understanding among countries within and outside the region,and promote security and cooperation in East Asia.Real conflicts cannot be masked by false harmony,and the fundamental guarantee of stability in East Asia is to face the fundamental problems that exist between the major powers.The US-led Asian security system nominally emphasizes the collective security of the region,but in fact,it maintains its existing security interests and serves its hegemonism through the self-led alliance system.Japan and South Korea are uppermost Allies of the United States to ensure its dominance in East Asia and seek complete political freedom in an asymmetrical alliance.China’s rise in power has expanded its network of partnerships,which led its position to the economic center of East Asia,its ability to shape the economic and regional order and maximized its security has increased by building a peaceful stable and beneficial international order.In the reality of power competition,ASEAN becomes the central identity of regional cooperation and provides the ASEAN model as the norm.The ASEAN Way,which emphasizes the principles of independence and equality and dialogue,has become the norm for regional cooperation in East Asia.A multilateral cooperation network with ASEAN as the center and ASEAN way as the expansion model has been formed.They include the "10+1",the "10+3",the East Asia Summit,the ASEAN Regional Forum,the ASEAN Defense Ministers’ Meeting Plus and other regional multilateral mechanisms.Within the cooperation mechanism,East Asian countries have reached more consensus through the code of conduct,decision-making procedures and other aspects of constraints,which has promoted the process of East Asian political and economic integration.As the competition between China and the United States intensifies and expands to almost every field including diplomacy,values,economy,technology and military fields,it squeezes the space of ASEAN’s strategic initiative.The maintenance of ASEAN’s centrality makes it more difficult to maintain the ASEAN way,and ASEAN is also finding a way to survive in the cracks between great powers.Institutionalizing security cooperation has become an urgent call of The Times to promote the building of a peaceful,stable,just and reasonable security order in East Asia.In the face of the three factors including the rise of China’s economic power in East Asia,the containment of China’s rise by the United States and the development of regional cooperation in East Asia,regional cooperation in East Asia is characterized by low efficiency and low degree of institutionalization.In order to deconstruct and upgrade the theory of cooperative governance to the level of regional governance,from the construction of trust,benefit sharing and structural relation coordination,we discuss the path of East Asian security mechanism construction and understand the status quo characteristics of the current East Asian security mechanism from the perspective of regional cooperative governance:economic dependence is gradually deepening among common interests,interest differentiation is prominent,core interests are not fully respected,and non-strategic interests can only be transferred to a limited extent.Mutual trust among countries has a heterogeneous trend in the process of promotion,and the structural relations among East Asian countries are more complicated.The security order is dominated by China and the United States but not compatible,and Japan and South Korea are willing to lead but unable to practice.The security order dominated by small ASEAN countries has been formed in the region,but it lacks authority due to the small power.The change of domestic and foreign environment,the development of national relative strength and the change of national demand are all important factors affecting interest cooperation.Structural and exogenous contradictions also hinder the shaping of trust.In the face of the current difficulties in East Asian security cooperation,how does China promote the establishment of an East Asian security mechanism? The coordination of major powers and the construction of stable relations are the top priority.While resolutely safeguarding national security and development interests,we should not actively intensify conflicts and conflicts.We should build a new type of major-country relations and a cooperation network through strategic communication and limited cooperation.At the same time,we should pay attention to the role of major countries in coordination and guidance,and promote regional multilateral cooperation in a voluntary capacity.We should adhere to the ASEAN central cooperation organization structure and give play to the role of small and medium-sized countries in regional security.We should improve and strengthen the existing multilateral security cooperation mechanisms,build reasonable and compatible multilateral security cooperation mechanisms,and use our own strength to advance East Asia security cooperation in a pragmatic way.We should provide China’s proposals and proposals for East Asia security and governance,and contribute our share to global sustainable development.