英文摘要 |
Taking advantage of its rapidly expanding economic and military power, China is posing a highly aggressive stance to the neighboring countries geopolitically important to China, which are also rich in natural resources yet institutionally vulnerable. North Korea is an extreme case, and the countries' developments also have implications to Myanmar and Mongolia. In this paper, Japan's Manchukuo policy in the 1930s is defined as: 1) huge investment in economic infrastructure for extracting local natural resources, 2) using military interventions to secure economic interests, and 3) socialpolitical absorption by staging a puppet regime, among others. China's current strategy toward its neighboring countries can well be explained with such a historical model. In retrospect, Japan's Manchukuo policy was a sophisticated strategic measure of stealth imperialism for a relatively weak latecomer imperial power trying to expand its own interests discreetly and incrementally by avoiding direct confrontation with established imperial powers such as Great Britain and the United States. Likewise, China's Quasi-Manchukuo strategy is a measure of stealth imperialism for latecomer China to expand its vested interests while avoiding immediate confrontation with other major powers over strategically vital countries such as North Korea and Burma. Against such background, a rising China is in fact a new-imperial power. |