CÂTEVA REPERE GEOPOLITICE ȘI DE SECURITATE PRIVIND STRATEGIA DE TRANSFORMARE A CHINEI ÎNTR-O SUPERPUTERE MARITIMĂ
SOME GEOPOLITICAL AND SECURITY LANDMARKS ON CHINA'S STRATEGY TO BECOME A MARITIME SUPERPOWER

Summary/Abstract: The sea route, known as China's Maritime Silk Road Initiative (MSRI), designed to link the South China Sea and the Mediterranean Sea, as part of the "Belt and Road Initiative" (BRI), proposes a long route that will pass through the Strait of Malacca, the Indian Ocean and the Suez Canal. China has been a great land power for centuries, but now China wants to become a maritime superpower, and its objectives regarding MSRI are oriented towards this goal. In this study, we propose to highlight some of the economic targets which are targeted by Beijing under the MSRI, but also a number of aspects of the development of Chinese naval forces, in the context of China's strategic goal to become a maritime superpower. We will try to highlight some relevant aspects of the Chinese state efforts to achieve this strategic objective, referring to the concept of maritime power defined by Alfred T. Mahan and to a series of precepts of offensive realism promoted by John J. Mearsheimer.

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