Abstract
The arena of the world is becoming flat, the world is flat. This is the most important event happening in today’s world. Indeed, the world is changing significantly mainly due to the globalization. Although the globalization has deepened the interdependence among countries, it neither makes the conflicts and even the wars unimaginable, nor makes the cooperation inevitable. Can we embrace the flat world without conflicts in it? Today, it’s increasingly clear that the world powers collide with each other and threaten each other in pursuit of their respective interests and demands, thus increasingly worsening the crisis and conflicts based on strategic competition and strategic extension. In 2013 the United States steadily pushed forward the Asia-Pacific strategy while India also extended the maritime strategy from the Indian Ocean to the Pacific by accelerating the implementation of “Look East” policy. Here is a question: what are exactly the goals of great powers’ strategic extension? What results may be caused by such extension? From recognizing threats to further constructing new threats, man himself has created a terrible threat, which makes man become a prisoner of this terrible threat. The question arising in the process of constructing new threats, is how great powers conducting the strategic extension can prevent strategic competition from moving forward geo-politic conflicts, which is a question worthy of thorough pondering.
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[U.S] Friedman (2012).
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Liu (2010c).
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Cohen (1978).
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Liu and Dong (2012).
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Liu (2010a).
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Liu (2010b).
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[US] Jones et al. (2009).
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[US] Huntington (2010).
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Zhang (2012a).
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[US] Jones et al. (2009).
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Zhang (2012b).
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Dobson (2010).
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[US] Brzezinski and Scowcroft (2009, p. 2).
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Zhu (2012).
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Niu (2010).
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Liu (2010b).
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Li (2004).
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[US] Kissinger (2009, p. 2).
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[US] Kissinger (2009, p. 139).
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Zhu (2012).
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Chen (2012).
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[US] Cottrell and Burrell (1976).
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[US] Friedberg (2012).
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[US] Kennedy (2006).
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Li (2012).
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[India] Panikkar (1965, pp. 80–96).
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Zhu (2012).
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Zhao (2012).
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Singh and Dahiya (2012).
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[US] Cottrell and Burrell (1976).
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[US] Brzezinski and Scowcroft (2009, p. 115).
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[India] Panikkar (1965, p. 96)
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Indian Navy sets up the three commands, namely: the Western, Eastern and Southern Commands, of which the Western Naval Command is mainly responsible for the security and defense of the north Arabian Sea waters adjoining Pakistan a traditional rival of India, the Southern Naval Command is mainly responsible for the regular training of the Navy and the defense of the southern waters of India, and the Eastern Naval Command is mainly responsible for the security and defense of the Bay of Bengal and the eastern coasts of India.
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Indian “Nonalignment 2.0” (2012).
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Sunil Khilnani, Rajiv Kumar and Pratap Bhanu Mehta, Nonalignment 2.0: Foreign and Strategic Policy for India in the Twenty First Century. http://www.cprindia.org/sites/default/files/NonAlignment%202.0_1.pdf.
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Zhu, C. (2018). Maritime Strategy of the United States and India. In: India’s Ocean. Research Series on the Chinese Dream and China’s Development Path. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-5726-7_5
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