Defense Issues. Volume 13, Number 9. America's Asia-Pacific Security Strategy,

In her presentation, the speaker focuses on the national security documents published in the United States and Russia in 2021. The Interim strategic national security guidance, published just seven weeks after the Biden administration came to power, testifies to the intention of the current US leadership to distance itself from the legacy of Donald Trump. Major attention is paid to domestic politics and ideological components of the new administration's agenda. Continuity with the 2017 National Security Strategy remains in relation to the strategic competition with China, while less attention is devoted to Russia. In July 2021, an updated National Security Strategy of the Russian Federation was released. It reflects significant changes in the vision of Russia's role in global politics. Major focus is on the issues of information and environmental security. The speaker notes that the US and Russian strategic documents are subject to a general trend of expansion of the concept of national security to include the aspects of domestic security, as well as socio-economic and cultural aspects. In the foreign policy sphere, the strategies are mainly focused on the Asia-Pacific region.

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United States Security Strategy for the East Asia-Pacific Region

The SHAFR Guide Online ◽

10.1163/2468-1733_shafr_sim240020004 ◽

2017 ◽

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

East Asia ◽

Asia Pacific ◽

Pacific Region ◽

Asia Pacific Region ◽

Security Strategy

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The security strategy of the People’s Republic of China in light of the 2019 Defence White Paper

Kwartalnik "Bellona" ◽

10.5604/01.3001.0014.0215 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 700 (1) ◽

pp. 49-64

Author(s):

Paweł Paszak

Keyword(s):

The United States ◽

White Paper ◽

Asia Pacific ◽

People’S Republic Of China ◽

People's Republic Of China ◽

Security Strategy ◽

Republic Of China ◽

The Face ◽

The Usa ◽

Balance Of Forces

This article aims to outline main directions of the security strategy of the People’s Republic of China basing on the analysis of the Defence White Paper of July 2019, the political practice of the Beijing authorities as well as internal and international situation. Having analysed the above mentioned areas, the author concludes that the contemporary strategy of the PRC is internally subordinated to maintaining territorial, political and social integrity, including primarily legitimization of the power of the Communist Party of China. Externally, the strategy is oriented at reversing the unfavourable balance of forces in the Asia-Pacific region and weakening of the US military advantage. Those two directions determine the activities of the Chinese state in such specific areas as: modernization of the People’s Liberation Army (PLA), the relations with Taiwan and claims concerning South China Sea. The Defence White Paper is aimed at contrasting the unilateral and hegemonic policy of the United States (as the authors of the document see it) with the defensive and moderate activities of China. The narration serves to convince international players to remain neutral or engage in collaboration with China in the face of intensifying military, economic and political pressure on the part of the USA. China has entered a “critical moment” of its development and the response of the Beijing authorities to the challenges of internal development and external pressures will determine whether in the 21st century it will become a superpower.

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