【英文】亚太安全合作理事会报告：2023亚太地区安全展望（72页）

英文研究报告 2023年03月03日 08:33 管理员

When Russia’s President Vladimir Putin launched his ‘special military operation’ to invade and occupy neighbouring Ukraine on 24 February 2022, the world shuddered. In a painstakingly premeditated manner, Putin stepped over perhaps the most foundational norm of the prevailing international order – the norm prohibiting the use or threat of use of force against the territorial integrity or political independence of any state that had been set out in seminal documents like the UN Charter and the Five Principles of Peaceful Co-existence.

For something like two decades, the international community had sensed the gradual but relentless erosion of confidence in the principles, conventions, and processes designed to foster stability and peace. Over this period, the international political climate has darkened steadily as issues attracting contestation outpaced areas of common interest and the space allowed for negotiation and compromise was conspicuously whittled down. This trajectory— underpinned by the spectacular surge in China’s strategic weight toward parity with the US—had been widely recognised and commented on, including in the pages of this publication. The international community shuddered because, on 24 February 2022, it seemed that the end game had abruptly come into view.