younhong min pos 240  4 ab-ma political science june 20, 2014  chinas coping with globalization  

in the era of post-cold war, one of the prominent issues being discussed in the field of international relations includes chinas potentiality to become a major power in line with united states, along with other candidates such as india and japan. chinas unique qualities with its territorial advantage and huge amount of population suffice enough to overarch the other two candidates and arise as a comparable political and economic rival of us

throughout the discussion in this paper, victor chas globalization and the study of international securityand its fundamental implications and changes onto the precedent conceptualization of international security as well. complementing chas encompassing view on globalization and security in international society, charles glasers will chinas rise lead to war? delves specifically into chinas positionary role in the scene of international relations and offers a critical assessment on chinas potential to become a vital actor, expanding its sphere of influence across the borders in the upcoming years

following the liberalist argument provided in glasers article, in order to become a major power china would not risk to launch a costly and hazardous threat to overturn the system as the present international order is defined by the economic and political openness by which can accommodate chinas rise peacefully (glaser, 2011).i do agree with the former argument that china would not be miscalculating to evoke a revolutionary change to knock over the existing order; however, i doubt if chinas perception of the very openness is and will be concordant with the implied above.

after the immediate post-cold war period, due to globalization process the security constituencies have become more non-physical rather than a direct military confrontation like the times of war where the objectives were to protect the territory and sovereignty of the nation-state. now globalization has altered the objectives of international security into protection of information and technology assets, and expanded the diversity of security providers (cha, 2 )

the security providers have evolved from the state, which became less important yet still remains central of all sources, to non-state, sub-state and trans-state agents in this century (cha, 2 ). hence, the ongoing globalization, a chronically and spatially penetrating procedural phenomenon, challenges the states control of technology and information assets through the various agencies

having this provision as a background, china cannot and will not be willing to provide this openness of their information to the world. to cite an example, in china any forms of social networking services or sns are prohibited but the people still use it secretly

i have a chinese friend named wenfei whom i met in france during my jta and i still remember how happy and thankful she was when she was able to use facebook so freely in france. despite the suppressive governments effort by blocking and illegalizing any source of information leak, its security is now being threatened by the ongoing globalization than any other times before


globalization does not only put pressures on its information security, but it also engenders external interventions by catalyzing some violent reactions. and this intervention is likely to bring an identity crisis and internal divisions, in which china is most afraid of

as mentioned above, the process of globalization has diversified and expanded security constituencies and concerns; hence rather than the physical and material needs and protection, now globally relevant and encircling issues are debated, such as diseases, ozone depletion, human rights, drug smuggling, human trafficking, political terrorists etc. (cha, 2011)

for this matter, china is uhas already reported a number of cases and incidents where those mentioned concerns like human rights and environmental pollution are violated or worsened by the chinese government (cha, 2 ). for example, many people, not just the chinese citizens but , cooperatives, international organizations and individuals from different countries and continents, support and demand the independence or separation of tibet people from the mainland china due to tibets strong and distinct preserved characteristics and culture

a lot more internal problems of china are becoming intermestic and delivered to millions of people in the world through the media and sns at one second these days. despite chinas protracted silence as a response to these grieving mass, it will someday have to deal with the reality and decide on whether to join this process of globalization by freely opening up its information assets


although china in some part is already and gradually coping with the globalization process in the fields of production, trade, industry, finance etc. , china still could not veil itself off from the queries and demands that are waiting to be answered

their hesitation and tendency of resilience to open itself towards the penetrating globalization would hinder itself to arise as the next super power as it does not sufficiently internalize the fundamental principles of globalization. however this conservative behavior of chinese government cannot and should not be drastically changed and reformed overnight; its historical and political complexity that o consideration
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