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A Study On Japan’s Maritime Strategy And China’s Countermeasures

Posted on:2016-02-26Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:C R LiFull Text:PDF
GTID:2296330473457771Subject:International politics
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Japanese people always praise themselves as a maritime nation, and the ocean plays a really large role in Japan’s history. After the Cold War, Japan moves its development center towards the ocean, and expects to release itself from the post-war system by reinforcing oceanographic technology research and development, which can also contribute to its national power and big country diplomatic strategy. China and Japan are neighbors separated by a strip of water, and Japan regards China as a rival all the time, which can also be found in its maritime strategy. Facing with Japan’s aggressive attitude, we should do something constructive.Sea consciousness, coast defense theory, sea power theory and maritime state theory are the main theoretical bases of Japan’s maritime strategy. In the last decade, Japanese officials have issued and implemented Basic Act on Ocean Policy and Basic Plan on Ocean Policy (2008&2013), comprehensive maritime strategy gets started. The strategy appears by no accident, it’s Japan’s response to the U.S. Return to the Asia-Pacific, China’s Rise, political right deviation, domestic demand for resources and worldwide scramble for maritime commons. Since it came back to power, the Abe-administration has accelerated the pace of the strategy. On diplomatic front, Prime Minister Abe visits other Asia-Pacific countries more often, and means to establish a maritime encirclement against China. On military front, regardless of the recession, the budget of JMSDF and JCG has gone up year by year. On marine development front, marine resources, oceanographic technology innovation, marine industry are deemed to be the key points, and by which Japan can strengthen its superiority. On marine education front, Japan officials continue to promote professional and interdisciplinary marine education among colleges, at the same time, also pay attention to basic marine education among compulsory schools.It is easy to see that Japan’s maritime strategy is a comprehensive national strategy, which not only put a high value on military power and diplomacy, but also pay attention to economy, culture and education. Facing with it, we must take it seriously, strengthen our power to deal with it, draw lessons from it, and advance the marine co-operations with our neighboring countries, strengthen our naval forces, speed up our marine development, and improve the whole nation’s marine consciousness. With above all things, we can issue and implement our own maritime strategy and make our country a maritime power. By using this power, we can build a maritime superiority upon Japan, overawe its right-wing forces, and bring about time-honored friendship between two nations.
Keywords/Search Tags:Japan, maritime strategy, countermeasures, Sino-Japan relations
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