战略关键期的中国外交大转型:动因、任务与特色

The Great Transformation of Chinese Foreign Policy in Key Strategic Phase:Motivations, Tasks, and Characteristics

当一国面临的国内外形势发生转折性变化,从而使其既定外交政策不能有效维护国家利益时,该国外交就必须进行转型与调整。21世纪以来,中国的和平崛起进入了战略关键期,中国外交必须因时而变。中国外交大转型具有特定的"中国动因"。中国外交大转型的"中国任务"是由特殊历史境遇与现实国情共同决定的,需要在外交指导思想、外交目标、外交服务对象、外交形态与外交机制等方面做出调整。但与历次外交转型不同,新时代中国外交转型具有鲜明的"中国特色"。面对国际安全新形势与中国外交的诸多挑战,中国外交急需转型,中国政府急欲转型,但转型能否成功还取决于国内的全面改革。

When the internal and external situations one country facing are changing greatly and its current foreign policy can’t safeguard its national interests, the country must change its foreign policy. Since the beginning of the 21 st century, China’s peaceful rise has entered the key strategic phase, and its foreign policy must change accordingly. The transformation of Chinese foreign policy has its own motivations. The tasks of the transformation of Chinese foreign policy have been codetermined by its special historical circumstances and its current national conditions, including the transformation of diplomatic ideology, diplomatic goals, diplomatic mechanism, foreign service object, and the relations of inter-external affairs. However, the transformation of Chinese foreign policy shows distinct Chinese characteristics in the New Era. In the face of new situations of international security and multiple challenges, Chinese foreign policy must be transformed, and the Chinese government also has an urgent desire for it. However, its success depends on Chinese government’s domestic reform.