东亚冷战视野下的中美关系

On the Sino-US Relations in the Context of the Cold War in East Asia

冷战时期的中美关系与东亚地区战略格局之间的关系及其相互影响等,在那个时期与诸多重大事态一起,塑造了该时期东亚国际政治格局,并极为深刻地影响了中美两国国内的政治和对外关系的历史进程,给世界政治也带来了极为深刻的影响,一些重要的后果一直延续到今天(这并不仅仅是指中美这两个超大型国家从对抗到合作的发生、发展和转变自然会给世界和地区政治带来的那种广泛而自然的变化,如紧张局势的发生和缓和、地区国际安全环境的动荡和稳定、经济和相互贸易的隔绝与增长、广泛丰富的文化交流被阻绝或蓬勃发展,等等)。尤为重要的是它促成了近四十年来世界历史进程中两个革命性的和最具持久影响的伟大事件。其一是持续了四十多年的冷战以苏联的解体而和平落幕,人类从随时可能被核战争毁灭的恐怖阴影中解脱出来;其二是中国的和平崛起。

During the Cold War,the correlation and mutual impact between the Sino-US relations and the strategic pattern in East Asia,together with numerous important events,formed the international political climate in East Asia at that time,which impacted the domestic politics both in China and the U.S.as well as their historical development of diplomatic relations and caused profound changes to the politics in the world.Some of the consequences continue to exert influence today.For instance,the transformation of the Sino-US relations from opposition to cooperation will naturally result in extensive changes in the political situations in regions and the whole world such as intensity or relief of regional tensions,turmoil or stability of international security environment,cease or increase of economic cooperation and multi-lateral trade,prevention or development of extensive cultural communication,etc.Most importantly,the transformation catalyzed two revolutionary and influential events in the world history in the past four decades:first,the four-decade-long Cold War ended in peace with the collapse of the Soviet Union and fortunately,human beings were relieved from the terror of being destroyed by nuclear war;second,the peaceful rising of China.