Nuclear Deterrence

Nuclear Agendas - Nuclear Deterrence

Security Environment: China’s Strategic Imperatives

China’s immediate short and long term interests would extend to its registered territorial claims and disputes, to areas of immediate economic interest and to those parts of the world where it plans on increasing its political interaction as a short and mid term objective. This means that the PRC over a period of time would project itself along the Pacific littoral states, ASEAN, the Indian Ocean, Africa, West Asia and the Central Asian Republics, where its national interests lie. Such initiatives in an incoherent geo-political and geo-strategic environment are bound to induce a conflict of interests with the major global and regional players that could, if not prepared, generate dangerous instabilities in the regional security environment with serious repercussions.