Let us first look forward shift for thousands of years, the history of the country: Rome, Arabia, Han, Tang, yuan, Napoleon in France, are typically terrestrial state, state dominated the land for thousands of years, due to the lack of knowledge of world geography people, lack of navigational ability, in the absence of marine times, population, wealth, land, can only come from the mainland, and has a vast area and a natural barrier for the area, easily forming power.
So Napoleon one hundred years, has the world's most powerful navigation ability in Ming Dynasty, after Zheng He's death, and ended his maritime career, if the give up sailing, implies a large continent on sailing without interest and initiative to give up, then Napoleon's failure, rather Hero Road short feeling, he never unable to defeat the British, even but more than 30km wide strait.
In the ocean, with many overseas colonies of Britain, has been the continental European observer, he always in the dominant party. Descended from the British, American, inherited the sea power thought, and by the Mahan system, they do better than the British, the United States is the world's wait-and-see person, always absorb all over the world, benefits, and never affected by war spread to the United States, from the two world war has accumulated a huge advantage, make him become the incomparable world superpower.
The United States of America phenomenon, namely marine phenomenon. The ocean so become dominant in continental countries, the relationship between the perplexing, interact on each other, the continental countries internal friction badly, inevitable weakness to marine development, marine countries almost only the navy can be both offensive and defensive. The burden of small, is the common characteristic of sea state.
But the sea state is not without shortcomings, their ocean supply lines once was cut, only a blind alley. For this, Mahan suggested, ocean state had to expand outwards, control the seas of the world are the main routes. In order to prevent the continental countries freezing, must be with the attack instead of defense, on the mainland countries to counter blockade.
Sea power theory from put forward now, almost no mistakes, follow that road, the United States a step to become a superpower, indeed, his geographical position is superior.
As the United States of America 's biggest rival, China was a typical mainland country, and was near the ocean islands surrounded by the United States, contain China's three lines, the so-called first, second, third island chain, will China was sealed in the sea, to the East, the United States and its support of the Japanese blocked, to the south, elaborate organization, the United States supports ASEAN long-term confrontation with china. In the former Soviet threat not before release, China no may import and ocean. 1990 time of Su Dong revulsion, gave China valuable respite, with nearly 20 years of rapid development, China in the East and finally achieved the US-Japan alliance balance of power, and to the south, to solve problems process.
I'm in another post said the South China must, but further said, if control of the South China Sea, China 's next step should be completely out of the island chain, and the United States of America contention ocean?
The answer is no..
I believe that the world can pattern to another direction, the mainland to come back to advantage, as the history of continental maintained over three thousand years' advantage, and ocean but for hundreds of years.
China in future quite long time, should just hold your oceans, and will try to land development, north of Russia, once the decline, including the Outer Mongolia and Siberia should be recovered, it is not impossible; to the south, and Burma to establish closer relations, in Burma's India ocean coast to build large-scale dock, threatens India from another direction, diversionary ASEAN, indirect blockaded the Malacca Strait; in the southwest, with the backing of strength + exchange of interests, make India up to the development of Tibet, Chinese India ocean to ocean, support India is India ocean, but China will be more easy access to Pakistan and Iran, to the iron sea transport way, fast the Middle East and Africa resource transported to the mainland. I am not in favor of the repression in India, the first Chinese to India does not have an absolute advantage, then once the repression in India, India will cut off China 's energy line, so China and India as the best cooperation, the bottom line is not to sell Pakistan.
In the west, Russia once the fading, Central Asian countries and Russia's relations will be tense, as the observer, China is safe.
The above analysis, for China, only need to wait. Hundreds of years of continental countries struggle continuously depends on the mainland, lack of power state, the majority of the Eurasian continent, only two or three countries can, and China should be such a big country. True when a continental power country, marine national advantage in not.
Ocean governance theory is going bankrupt is another cause of space theory, control of the space shuttle, a high-speed aircraft, was considered to be difficult to cross the ocean will become history, space, bid farewell to the past marine land two-dimensional world, in the three-dimensional world, who stood at HISTEP, well, who is the winner.
Have a look now space powers who is? In the United States, russia!
Prior to the country of Japan, space development has lagged far behind China, although India do all one can to catch up, but he and Russia not in a class, as for the EU, a collection of so many of the so-called developed countries, the strength is still in Russia after the.
The rise of space theory, gives a new thinking, such as the former is used to go to the United States of America sideways look at the map, so far, but once directly over the north pole, will find that the United States is very near.
Future geopolitical development, either to return to terrestrial age, either across into the space age, the era of the ocean, to an end sooner or later. No matter how, geopolitics to reshuffle, in this big change, China is an opportunity. 作者: abctx123 时间: 2012-8-28 01:30