中国的珍珠链战略对印度和台湾的影响.pdfVIP

China’s ‘String of Pearls’ in Southern Asia-Indian Ocean: Implications for India and Taiwan** * W.Lawrence S. Prabhakar Introduction China’s rise and its global engagement are largely predicated on its vibrant and robust maritime trade strategy. In the vanguard of this successful maritime trade strategy has been the sound articulation of its maritime security strategy that has been replete with its “Three Island Chains” strategy and the assiduous strategy of cultivating South Asia, Southeast Asia, Latin America and Africa in its zestful quest to strategic access of resources that would aid its economic rise and consolidation. China’s access and trade with these regions are predicated on its ability to gain maritime access to these regions and in turn export its manufactured goods to these regions. China is building an assiduous strategy of trade and security access and basing in the Southern Asia-Indian Ocean littorals of expanding economic influence and interdependence with strong value of security relationships that covers its core allies, partners and even rivals. China’s economic and strategic access is built on a “string of pearls” that has a strong maritime-military dimension of cultivating trade, building infrastructure and engaged in political-diplomatic strategies of building regional and global influence. In the context of ‘peaceful’ rise, China has however made it very categorical that it does not tolerate secession in what it terms as the adventuristic outcomes of renegade provinces like Taiwan and Tibet. China has thus pivoted its foreign policy on the scope of how these two territorial entities influence and shape its relations with other states. The rise of China has levitated several alliances among the Asia-Pac