Concept And Policy: An Analysis Of American Think Tank 's Study Of China

Think tank is the creator of ideas, the US think tanks’ researches on China issues is essentially a reflection of the reality of the Sino-US relations. By taking quantitative analysis method, the thesis selects the programmatic documents for China of the top ten US think tanks in the past 20 years and makes regular combing and analysis mainly on research trends in the United States think tank on China issues. By deeply analyzing every individual issue, the thesis finds the reasons of the changes and also gives policy recommendations from the perspective of American think tanks.In the past 20 years, US think tanks’ researches on China issues fundamentally focused on 10 areas, including military modernization, the South China Sea, economy,energy problems and so on. Also, these problems and issues change over time.Improvement or deterioration of the Sino-US relations has affected the US think tanks’ researches on a single issue of China. The research shows that US think tanks’ researches on China issues maintain a high degree of consistency with the US government, Sino-US differences in cognition and policy is an important reason for causing tension between the two sides, there are some misunderstandings in a number of issues between the two sides, but also a lot of space and development prospects of cooperation in such as economy, energy and climate change issues, Both China and America must enhance policy awareness and mutual understanding, reduce cognitive differences and find common interests.