POWER GAMES WITHIN EAST ASIA
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27 March 2026
Available Online
15 March 2015
Abstract
THE STRATEGICALLY NUCLEAR BALANCE IN THE EAST ASIA VACILLATES BETWEEN TWO LIMITS. THE GLOBAL POWER BALANCE DEPENDED FOR A WHILE ON THE RELATIONS BETWEEN THE USA AND THE USSR IN THE FIRST PLACE AND IN THE SECOND, ON THE EUROPEAN POWER BALANCE, THE INTEREST FOR ASIA BEING ON LY PERIPHERAL. THE ASIAN STRATEGICALLY POWER BALANCE HAS RECONFIGURED QUICKLY; UNTIL 1990 THE KOREAN PENINSULA HAD A HUGE STRATEGICALLY VALUE, GATHERING MANY POWERFUL ACTORS INTERESTED IN CONTROLLING IT - THE USA, THE USSR, CHINA, INDIA AND JAPAN - PRESENTLY THERE ARE SOME OTHER SPACES IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD THAT ARE VALUED MORE FROM A STRATEGICALLY POINT OF VIEW. THE POWER SCALE BETWEEN CHINA AND THE USA, THOUGH NOT IMPRESSED BY SMALL COALITION ANTI-CHINA IS YET SENSITIVE TO INDIA'S POSITION. THE KOREAN PENIN SULA HAS ALWAYS BEEN A GOOD PLACE FOR INVASIONS – BOTH CHINESE AND JAPANESE, MUCH TIME IN HISTORY. THE IDEA OF A UNITED KOREA ALLIED WITH THE USA, FORCES CHINA TO CONTINUE TO PREFER THE STATUS QUO, HOPING TO INFLUENCE THE THINKING OF AND, EVENTUALLY, KOREA GIVING UP ITS NUCLEAR AGENDA. ONLY THE USA WOULD BENEFIT FROM AN ALTERATION IN THE PENINSULA'S STATUS, A SITUATION NOT TO BE ACCEPTED BY CHINA. INDONESIA AS A MILITARY POWER IN SOUTH ASIA AND INDIA AS MILITARY EQUIPMENT PRODUCER ARE THE COUNTER -WEIGHT OF CHINA'S HEGEMONY ESPECIALLY IN THE ENTRANCE POINT FROM THE INDIAN OCEAN TO THE BENGAL GULF, TO THE NORTH AND TO THE SOUTH, AND THE MALACCA STRAIT TO THE EAST.
Keywords
NUCLEAR BALANCE
EAST ASIA
THE KOREAN PENINSULA
INDONESIA
INDIA
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