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China's rise as a major power constitutes one of the most significant strategic events of the post-Cold War period. Many policy-makers, strategists and scholars express significant concern over the implications of China's growing military and economic capabilities for the future security environment in Asia and beyond. Such concern derives in part from an anticipation of the systemic security problems that have historically accompanied the emergence of a new power. In the Chinese case, however, these anxieties are greatly compounded by the rapidity of internal change under way in China, the general lack of knowledge about Chinese strategic ambitions, the existence of many unresolved Chinese territorial claims, the intense suspicion and even hostility toward the West harboured by China's leadership, and China's internal political and social instabilities.

The article explores the People's Liberation Army's (PLA's) role in shaping China's national security policy with special reference to the specific mechanisms, personal and bureaucratic, formal and informal, by which the PLA currently influences national security policy, as well as the kinds of views and interests that the military seeks to advance. (DÜI-Sen)

Die Reformperiode in der VR China hat die Position der Partei, insbesondere ihre Möglichkeiten, die Überwindung der drängenden Probleme politisch zu fördern und zu gestalten, deutlich verschlechtert. Dabei fällt ins Gewicht, daß diejenigen Kräfte, die in der Reformperiode an Macht gewonnen haben, voran der Parteimittelbau, die lokalen Machtträger und die Träger der nichtstaatlichen Wirtschaft an der Erhaltung des status quo interessiert sind und alle Rezentralisierungsversuche der politischen Zentrale blockieren werden. Der Autor widmet der Darstellung der gescheiterten Rezentralisierungsversuche in Politik, Wirtschaft und Militär denn auch breiten Raum. (BIOst-Rsg)

Indications of a pattern of regime immobilism; examples of the apparent failure of the center to enforce its will throughout the party, economy, and military.