Yastremskiy A. M. China and other countries: colonization or integration policy?

Abstract: The problem that is being viewed becomes topical due to the global processes around the world, and the strengthening of China on the modern global arena. China spares no effort to integrate itself into countries and regions around the world. This flows from China’s history of growth and development. China’s economy’s rapid growth demands resources, markets to sell goods, the vast population requires jobs to ensure stability within the country. Some of the major directions of China’s integration are territorial expansion, primarily at the expense of bordering countries, as well as economic and demographic expansion. As historical experience shows, military solutions for some regional scale (and, presumably, world scale, as well) issues, are possible. The methological basis of this research consists of the systematic, structural and political, geopolitical, cultural and civilization-based approaches, the analysis, synthesis, induction, deduction, modeling and observation methods. Today’s China is involved into territorial disputes, many of which remain unresolved to this day. This affects not only Russia and the post-Soviet space, but other countries, as well. The dispute with Japan over the Senkaku Islands became particularly severe – to a degree that caused Washington to interfere. With that said, however, China handles the majority of such cases with a “delayed solution” approach, believing that, in 50-100 years the situation may resolve in China’s favour naturally, without pressure.

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