China needs a long term peaceful environment for realizing its modernization plan. The main objective of China’s foreign policy is for creating such good environment. The relations with its neighbors are of special importance in China’s foreign policy. After the Cold War, the relations between China and its neighbors have experienced significant changes with a general trend towards improvement and enhancement.

The neighboring diplomacy reflects China’s growing interests in its neighboring regions since China is one of the few countries in the world that is surrounded by so many countries with so great differences.678910 In a long time of the history, the relations with its neighbors have always had significant impacts to China, and the structures and patterns of them have shown as a mirror of China’s rising or declining.