关键词: 周边外交, 周边命运共同体, 国家间关系形态, 安全合作

Abstract: Since 2013, China has endeavored to promote the building of a community with a shared future with neighboring countries. To date, it has established and developed such a community with eighteen neighboring states. This has not only made the community with a shared future with neighboring countries a concrete and tangible pattern of interstate relations, but also positioned it as the mainstream form of Chinas relations with its neighboring countries. Compared to the security characteristics of tributary relations, mandala relations, alliance relations, and partnership relations, as well as the theory of security communities, the community with a shared future with neighboring countries that China is promoting exhibits distinct features in both the concept and practice of security cooperation. Its conceptual features are mainly reflected in three aspects: the prominent role, scientific comprehensiveness, and core values of the vision. Its practical features are primarily manifested in four dimensions: the scope, process, categories, and driving forces of security cooperation. These characteristics demonstrate the superiority and advanced nature of the community with a shared future with neighboring countries. From a security perspective, China still faces five major challenges in further advancing the construction of such a community. Nevertheless, the established conceptual and practical features of security cooperation provide a solid foundation and reference for addressing these challenges.

Key words: neighborhood diplomacy, community with a shared future with neighboring countries, pattern of interstate relations, security cooperation