The new security concept (新安全观) is a

security policy Security policy is a definition of what it means to ''be secure'' for a system, organization or other entity. For an organization, it addresses the constraints on behavior of its members as well as constraints imposed on adversaries by mechanisms ...

enunciated by the

People's Republic of China China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. It is the world's most populous country, with a population exceeding 1.4 billion, slightly ahead of India. China spans the equivalent of five time zones and ...

in the late 1990s. The concept is that in the post- Cold War period, nations are able to increase their security through diplomatic and economic interaction, and that the Cold war mentality of competing and antagonistic blocs is outdated. Around 2002 and 2003, this security policy seemed to merge with the foreign policy doctrine known as

China's peaceful rise "China's peaceful rise", sometimes referred to as "China's peaceful development", was an official policy and political slogan in China under former General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party Hu Jintao which sought to assure the internatio ...

. The overarching principle of the new security concept is that no single state, even the most powerful, is capable of coping with all security challenges alone. The new security concept has influenced a number of Chinese foreign policies in the 1990s and early 21st century, including better relations with

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, the formation of the

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and the Treaty of Good-Neighborliness and Friendly Cooperation Between the People's Republic of China and the Russian Federation with

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, as well as joint efforts with the

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to control nuclear proliferation in North Korea.

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China's Position Paper on the New Security ConceptChina’s "New Concept of Security"

New Security Concept of China
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