La Chine et son environnement strategique

In: Revue défense nationale, Heft 742

Abstract

The author coordinated the articles in this issue that summarises the situation in China in the summer of 2011. In his own article here, he offers a broad overview of the various contributions. The main feature to emerge from the analyses is the alarming power of this key nation, tempered by the contradictions of its current strategic personality, which has three dimensions: its global aspect whose scope is inhibited by its local vulnerability; its regional environment where mastery is assumed, albeit cautiously; and its contribution to the global scheme of things, inextricably linked to a premeditated ambiguity in all it does.