Thread: Sino-Russian cooperation can add more ocean dimensions

Sino-Russian cooperation can add more ocean dimensions

Liu Feng

Source: Global Times 2021-10-14 03:03

"In the face of the current complex international situation and the new crown epidemic, the comprehensive strategic partnership of cooperation between China and Russia in the new era continues to improve.

The strategic cooperation between China and Russia presents a development concept of "no end, no forbidden zone, and no upper limit".

The existing cooperation between China and Russia in the maritime field is aimed at building a national maritime power, taking the development of the maritime industry and defensive protection of national maritime security as the basic criteria, and does not seek maritime hegemony or target third parties.

However, Western countries continue to exaggerate the maritime threats of China and Russia, and continue to expand the implementation of measures to "control China" and "Russia". The recently established Australia-UK-US Trilateral Security Alliance (AUKUS) is the latest example. In the face of increasing pressure from the maritime sector, China and Russia should vigorously strengthen cooperation in the maritime dimension under the framework of a comprehensive strategic partnership of cooperation between China and Russia in the new era.

The ocean dimension is a natural extension of the China-Russia comprehensive strategic cooperative partnership. The comprehensive strategic partnership of coordination keeps the relations between China and Russia on the same Eurasian continent at the best level in history.

The "China-Russia Joint Statement on the Development of a Comprehensive Strategic Partnership in the New Era" pointed out that the goals and directions of the comprehensive strategic partnership between the two countries in the future include: watching and helping each other, giving each other more firm and powerful strategic support, and supporting each other to follow its own development path and maintain the core interests of the country, guarantee the security, sovereignty and territorial integrity of the two countries; deep integration, close coordination and strategic collaboration on the docking of national development strategies...

At present, "toward the sea" has become the centre of development of China and Russia.

The realization of more strategic cooperation in the maritime dimension of the relations between the two countries is a natural extension of the China-Russia comprehensive strategic partnership of coordination. In the maritime dimension, China-Russia comprehensive strategic cooperation will help break through the dilemma of the two countries' land and sea dual security threats. Historical practice shows that land-sea complex countries suffer from varying degrees of land-sea dual security threats during their transition to the ocean, showing "the dual vulnerabilities of land-sea complex countries". Such countries must face and resolve This dilemma.

In order to curb the building of maritime powers in China and Russia, the United States and Western countries have joined with their respective maritime neighbors in China and Russia to build alliances to "control Russia" and "control China" at sea. Pacific region.

The Sino-Russian comprehensive strategic partnership of coordination can basically ensure the formation of their own stable land border environment while ensuring the security of each other’s land and borders, and provide rear security guarantees for the two countries to “make the map strong”. At the same time, the economy of China and Russia in the maritime dimension Strategic cooperation in the fields of, environmental protection, science and technology, military, etc. can effectively curb the strategic encirclement of the existing maritime powers, and then solve the "dilemma" of land-sea complex countries.

In the maritime dimension, the comprehensive strategic cooperation between China and Russia will help resolve the dispersion of the two-way allocation of resources on land and sea. China and Russia are at a critical stage of their rise and development.

As land-sea complex countries, they are facing the optimization and integration of land-sea resources and avoiding the negative impact of decentralized allocation of resources. The comprehensive strategic cooperation between the two countries in the maritime dimension can give play to their respective comparative advantages and form a mutually beneficial and win-win development situation, so as to rationally coordinate their land and sea resources and effectively resolve the dispersion of the two-way allocation of resources. Specifically, China and Russia can continue to deepen maritime cooperation at both the bilateral and international levels.

At the bilateral level, China and Russia can carry out in-depth exchanges and cooperation in four areas: marine economy, marine science and technology, marine ecology and environment, and maritime military power. The blue economy is the most potential growth point for both countries’ own development and bilateral economic cooperation. Marine science and technology cooperation is the key to improving the quality of Sino-Russian maritime cooperation. Marine ecology and environmental protection determine the development of Sino-Russian maritime cooperation and the sustainability of maritime cooperation. Strengthening maritime joint military exercises and military-technical cooperation is the guarantee of China-Russia’s maritime security.

At the international level, China and Russia can build a continuous ocean development space from the Pacific Ocean in the east, the Arctic Ocean in the north, and the Atlantic Ocean in the west through maritime strategic cooperation and docking; Communicate and negotiate in a timely manner on global issues such as the construction of the legal system of the sea to jointly maintain the international maritime order and enhance the right to speak on ocean issues; consider cooperating in the development, utilization and protection of the world’s marine resources; also cooperate with existing maritime powers and their allies Various alliance mechanisms to block the development of China and Russia's maritime industry and the construction of maritime powers.

(The author is an associate researcher of the National and Regional Research Institute of Tianjin Foreign Studies University)

刘锋：中俄合作可增加更多海洋维度


Machine translated.

No mention of joint Space Exploration "coordination", yet.