A Systematic Analyzing Of U.S.Foreign Policy To China In The Post-cold War Era

Beginning in the early 1970s and continuing into the post-cold war era, the U.S. foreign policy-making system has been transformed from the relatively closed and presidentially dominated system into a more open and pluralistic system. This article makes a review on the structure of the making system of U.S. foreign policy to China and the status and influence of its actors in a political systematic analyzing method. It also makes four case studies on the foreign policy-making in U.S sanction to China after 1989, the Most Favored Nation Status problem, President Bush's decision to sell F-16s to Taiwan and Lee Teng-hui' visit to U.S.. It concludes that the president remains the most important actor in the making system of U.S. foreign policy to China, while there also has been a sharp increase of other actors' demand to participate in the making of U.S. foreign policy to China. The president now must contend with an active Congress and respond to the pressure and demand from interest groups and the press, hence it makes it possible to influence the outcome of the U.S. foreign policy to China by altering the demand from the Congress, interest groups and the press.