China's Expansionism – A Strategic Perspective
China has been pursuing expansionist designs for a long time now. Being a communist country, analysts believe expansionism is crucial to its ideology. To support their view, they cite the instance of the erstwhile Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) overwhelming all its neighbours into submission. Because of its expansionists tendencies, China has border disputes with all its neighbours, be those over land or marine jurisdictions. The only exception is the Islamic Republic of Pakistan which is virtually its vassal state. China's Strategic Perspective. In pursuit of its centrality in international politics, China's primary strategic goal is the accumulation of 'comprehensive national power' defined by economic, military, technological and diplomatic global leadership. To attain this objective, it has long set itself on four-pronged converging strategic courses. Firstly, ensuring the domination of the Chinese Communist Party (CPC) to retain a strict...