REGIONAL AND NATIONAL APPROACHES TO EAST ASIA'S SECURITY AT THE TURN OF THE CENTURIES

Security issues in the region after the cold war have been limited to the maintenance of stability at both the regional and national levels. Much of this was because for a long time East Asia was the only world region with the domination of the economic regional ties and did not actually increase the influence of the military factor. Regional security, freedom and prosperity were directly dependent on the "postmodern" principles of negotiations, compromises and economic cooperation. Most regional countries, paying tribute to the traditional relations and retaining the tradition, were turned into "postmodernist" states that, unlike states operating force categories, invested significant economic potential not into the militarization, but into the welfare strengthening and developing the subregional and regional integration organizations. With the collapse of the bipolar world, one of the tension sources in East Asia was a struggle for the political leadership. The fight was against the backdrop of the rapid economic and military growth of China, strengthening its relations with ASEAN, and China's greater role in the North Korean nuclear crisis. All this happened while reducing the weight of Russia in the 1990s and lacking of the United States' clear position regarding the determination of the Asia-Pacific region's place in its foreign policy strategy. Despite the common interest of the parties in preserving stability in the region, there were several features of East Asian security ensuring: the problem of American military bases, the triangle of the Japanese security system: "economic security" - "national security" - "regional security", China's factor, the "method" of ASEAN, and Russia's returning. The confrontation at the Korean peninsula in the spring of 2013 showed that North Korea and North Korea's threats of nuclear attack on the United States and the Republic of Korea were the pretext for the concentration of the American military power and presence of the intelligence assets in the region not so far from the Northeast China and the Russian Far East. Therefore, the purpose of such an "Asian belt" was not only to counter the North Korean threat and maintain the American bases, but also to surround the main geo-strategic enemy of the United States - China. However, for the United States' administration it seemed insufficient to "surround" and "tighten the belt" around China, it began a sharp turn towards Europe for "tightening the belt" around Russia. Analysis of the international political situation in the Asia-Pacific region shows that there are significant changes here; and these changes are largely connected with significant changes in the global balance of powers. In the course of the Ukrainian events ( spring 2014) and the West's economic sanctions against Russia in connection with the accession of the Crimea, the Russian "pivot" toward Asia, in particular East Asia, looks entirely justified and reasonable.