In exploring approaches to better regional security architectures, the incremental one should merit our consideration. The possible routes might be old bottle of old wine, old bottle of new wine and new bottle of new wine, thus eventually achieving the unity of forms and contents.

1. Stage-Featured Thinking. In recent years the major parties concerned have focused their strategic thinking on security architectures in Asia on macro-prospects. In the meanwhile, the New Ideas of Asian Security has also reached a height of conceptual thinking that is difficult to surpass. Therefore, the most needed are intermediate strategic thinking, comparison between various proposals and mapping out strategic plans for the present stage. By so doing can we integrate the noodle-bowl of overlapping proposals into feasible roadmaps and timetables. To start with, we need to put forward and implement the guiding strategic principles for the co-existence of present security architectures, as well as prepare conditions for their future interaction and move in the same direction.

2. Principle Building. Security matters in terms of nations’ survivability with extreme difficulties and high sensitivities. Firstly, we must make full use of the existent security architectures in the region. The existent architectures possess relatively stable basis, operational experiences, institutions and personnel. To certain extent, making the best and fullest use of these architectures is conducive to the strategic trust among the relevant countries. At the same time, we must see the limits and shortcomings of these architectures. For instance, the rotating chairs often lead to oversupplies of recommendations and insufficient implementations. Secondly, we must understand the pluralistic features of security cooperation. The Asian security architectures are featured with pluralism, diversities and multi-centers. Therefore, while planning and promoting, we should do less with multi-centered confrontation but paralleling multi-centers. Furthermore, if possible, these centers should cooperate. For instances, they should strengthen cooperation on the Korean and Iranian nuclear issues as well as combating terrorism and extremism. Thirdly, we must coordinately promote security architectures in and of the region. The Asian security situation is complicated and fluid, and some of the security architectures are conflicting each other. Therefore, we should pay more attention to prior consultation, ongoing coordination and post assessments. In recent years the Chinese-initiated Xiangshan Forum and the World Peace Forum as well as other country-promoted security forums are playing the roles of the second track and one and half track dialogues. We need to stay on the right tracks for continued pooling of wisdoms, agreements so as to maintain peace and safeguard security.

3. Asian Features. Asian security architectures need to be distinctive Asian as well as compatible with others in the world. Firstly, the existent sub-regional architectures should play their required roles. The SCO, CICA, ARF, Six-Party Talks on North Korean Nuclear Issue and the U.S.-led alliance in the Asian Pacific region should make more constructive contributions in meeting various security challenges. Secondly, the proposed Asian security architectures should be based on the regional conditions. In the process of architecture building, we must give the fullest possible considerations to the factors of regional history, religion, culture, society and economy. We also need to strike a balance between the demands and the supplies so as to orderly promote and effectively operate the existent and would-be architectures. Last but certainly not the least, we must strive for organic docking between the Asian and global security architectures. On the one hand, Asian security architectures are not for the purpose of vindicating extra-regional theories and strategies. On the other hand, we must realize the global commonalities at the times of globalization and informationization. Our time calls for synchronized promotion of security communities of both Asia and the world. In this context, it is recommended that the Xiangshan Forum prepare relevant strategic reports to contribute to the building of new Asia security architectures.

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