| Summary: | 碩士 === 淡江大學 === 俄羅斯研究所 === 89 === Sluggish economy and political turmoil characterize Russia’s situation after the dismemberment of the former Soviet Union. Financial aids promised by western countries are mostly lip services. NATO eastward expansion, led by the United States, has made many former Soviet satellites under the security umbrella of NATO. Russia, as a result, approved its new military doctrine, highlighting the importance of nuclear deterrence. President Yeltsin expressed several times in the “State of the Union” address and National Security Concept his dissatisfaction over NATO eastward expansion.
It is for this reason that Russia and China established Strategic Partnership Relationship in April 1996, with the aim to strengthen strategic cooperation and counter the United States. With this in mind, both countries agreed to ease the tension along their border through demarcation and arms reduction. The Kosovo crisis brought the two countries even closer together militarily. China’s import of Russian arms has increased drastically since the 90s and it became Russia’s largest arms market in 1999. Russia’s poor economy is in desperate needs of the money from arms sale to China. In sum, efforts by both Russia and China have come to fruition in terms of establishing strategic partnership, deescalating military tension along the borderline and promoting arms sales.
Despite the fact that Russia received significant gains from arms sale to China, there have been numerous debates in Russia on whether a rising China will eventually pose a threat to Russia’s national security if it continuously supplies China with advanced weaponry. My thesis employs the “balance of power” to analyze whether Russia’s security policy towards China is a wise one.
Key points of the seven chapters in my thesis are:
Chapter 1: motives and goals of this thesis.
Chapter 2: schools that influence Russia’s national security strategy, Russia’s new military doctrine and national security concept and their implications to Russia’s foreign policy.
Chapter 3: China’s security policy in the post cold war era, China’s security policy toward Russia, factors that triggered China to strengthen its strategic cooperation with Russia.
Chapter 4: military cooperation between the two countries, including military personnel exchanges and arms sales.
Chapter 5: border demarcation and arms reduction, process of negotiation and how consensus was achieved.
Chapter 6: using “balance of power” to examine Russia’s security policy towards China in the 90s and its appropriateness.
Chapter 7: Russia’s security policy towards China and the development of bilateral relationship.
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