China’s Building of Overseas Military Bases: Rationale and Challenges
China’s military capability to perform out-of-area operations and provide international public goods falls short of the increasing need to protect its expanding economic, political, and security interests abroad. Overseas military bases can not only facilitate the soft application of China’s growing...
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| description | China’s military capability to perform out-of-area operations and provide international public goods falls short of the increasing need to protect its expanding economic, political, and security interests abroad. Overseas military bases can not only facilitate the soft application of China’s growing hard power, but also benefit the host nations in terms of national security, economic development, and job creation. A strong case can be made on both legal and precedential grounds for China’s construction of overseas military bases in the future. It is irreproachable for a great power like China to have overseas military installations as long as the Charter of the United Nations, host nations’ laws, and the longstanding non-intervention policy are upheld. Planning for overseas base-building must involve shaping an international environment that accepts Chinese military presence and conducting systemic risk assessments and practical solutions on such related matters as the location, size, functions, law enforcement, and maintenance of each military base. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-c899a34ba3ad40bfb2f7dcddec42072c2022-12-21T17:24:50ZengWorld Century Publishing CorporationChina Quarterly of International Strategic Studies2377-74002377-74192019-01-015449351010.1142/S237774001950026X10.1142/S237774001950026XChina’s Building of Overseas Military Bases: Rationale and ChallengesXue GuifangZheng JieChina’s military capability to perform out-of-area operations and provide international public goods falls short of the increasing need to protect its expanding economic, political, and security interests abroad. Overseas military bases can not only facilitate the soft application of China’s growing hard power, but also benefit the host nations in terms of national security, economic development, and job creation. A strong case can be made on both legal and precedential grounds for China’s construction of overseas military bases in the future. It is irreproachable for a great power like China to have overseas military installations as long as the Charter of the United Nations, host nations’ laws, and the longstanding non-intervention policy are upheld. Planning for overseas base-building must involve shaping an international environment that accepts Chinese military presence and conducting systemic risk assessments and practical solutions on such related matters as the location, size, functions, law enforcement, and maintenance of each military base.http://www.worldscientific.com/doi/pdf/10.1142/S237774001950026Xmilitary basechinaoverseas interestslegal environment |
| spellingShingle | Xue Guifang Zheng Jie China’s Building of Overseas Military Bases: Rationale and Challenges China Quarterly of International Strategic Studies military base china overseas interests legal environment |
| title | China’s Building of Overseas Military Bases: Rationale and Challenges |
| title_full | China’s Building of Overseas Military Bases: Rationale and Challenges |
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| title_full_unstemmed | China’s Building of Overseas Military Bases: Rationale and Challenges |
| title_short | China’s Building of Overseas Military Bases: Rationale and Challenges |
| title_sort | china s building of overseas military bases rationale and challenges |
| topic | military base china overseas interests legal environment |
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