冷战后美国对华政策探源——兼论美国“战略精英”和中美关系

POST COLD WAR U.S. CHINA POLICY: AMERICAN "STRATEGIC ELITES" AND SINO-U.S. RELATIONS

过去的历史表明，在中美两国的交往中，美国一直处在一个外向型、进攻型的位置上。这是由美国这个国家本身的特点所决定的。中国的历史和文化则决定了中国在近现代国际关系中的行为方式，即“中国主要是靠改变自己来影响世界的”①。然而，自冷战结束以来，在美国国内集中...

Abstract The basic factors affecting the U.S. China policy-making should be analyzed within the framework of America's global outlook. Most U.S. strategists know little about China because they are experts in European, former Soviet Union or Middle-Eastern affairs. But they have, after all, founded a theoretical framework with a view of global grand strategy in their analyses and researches of the above regions. Looking ahead to the Sino-U.S. relationship at the turn of the century, the author believes that the ups and downs before and after 1989 will no longer be repeated. The Sino-U.S. coordination is creating a model of coordination between powers, i.e., developing strategic common grounds between two states with different values. Theoretically this model is very enlightening, but the enormous difference between China and America leads to the difficulties in building the model.