Asia-pacific Strategy Of China And The United States After The Cold War Comparative Study

Since the end of the World War II to Soviet disunion, it has deeply stamped the two-pole marks that America and Soviet fight for hegemony. Besides, China and Japan are also the major powers which influence Asia-Pacific situation. Therefore, the interrelations among the four powers have become the major trend of the Asia-Pacific political pattern after the Cold War.After the Cold War, politics pattern of Asia-Pacific area has undergone profound changes, with the basic situation of"one ultra power with several super-powers". Interdependence and inter-struggle appeared among these powers, including America, Japan, China, Russia, and ASEAN. In this area, the national relations present the characteristic of multi-level. Being the dynamics of the global economic development, the Asia-Pacific area has increasing weighed in the international political pattern. It is also the strategic fort of the global military as well as the treasuries for global resources.China has the important strategic benefit demand in the Asia-Pacific area. In return, it is an important area where the Chinese economical diplomacy pays great attention. Insisting on the new security concept with mutual trust, mutual benefit, equality and coordination, developing positively friendly relations with the various countries in this area, China strive for a better international environment for the its peaceful rise. The Asia-Pacific area is the key area to protect the national security of China. Our Asia-Pacific strategic principles are as follows: China will persist to"Five Principles"of maintaining independence and mutual respect; The principle of maintaining national interest should be insisted on; The principle of good neighborhoods and solving international dispute by consultation should be kept; China will also persist in the multilateral principles and the region cooperation so as to keep the peace and stability of the area. Our Asia-Pacific economical strategy includes: Taking the national interest as the starting point and the end-result so as to ensure economic security; strengthening the economic integration of the peripheral areas so as to build a strategic buffer for china's economy condition. The strategy of China's geopolitics is to place East Asia and Southeast Asia as the most important. In order to fulfill the Asia-Pacific security strategy, China has adopted following actions: Taking the peace and stability of the land-edge as the strategic backing; Taking modernized military means as t the final fortress to safeguard national security; fighting Against the Taiwan Independence as well as promoting the integrity across the Taiwan Straits so as to maintain the territory integrity; Promoting the cooperation of multilateral security so as to expand China's security interests.U.S. is the only country who has the global influence, and has the important influence on the Asian and Pacific area business. The Asian and Pacific area is the important fiducial mark in US global strategy. US must Asian and Pacific in order to control the world. U.S. pursues the interests in politics, the economy, and the security and so on in the Asian and Pacific area. The Asian and Pacific strategic conception takes one country power as the ultimate strategic target. With the mode of threatening which is on the basis of comprehensive national strength, and taking the bilateral security union as the backbone, U.S. establishes the local safety mechanism to prevent the challenges which threaten US's hegemonic position. As a result U.S. forms new politics and economy order in which U.S. occupies the leading position, and play the leading role in Asian and Pacific area.The basic essential factors of Sino-America's Asian and Pacific strategy include strategic foundation, strategic essence and strategic target. In strategic foundation aspect, the guiding ideology in Sino-America's Asian and Pacific strategy has different idea in view of peace development and the liberalism, the realism, and the new conservatism. As to the strength, U.S. has the advantage in the Asian and Pacific area compare with China; In the international relations, China and America maintain their own strategic advantage respectively. In the strategic essence aspect, the essence of Chinese Asian and Pacific strategy is to seek peace, the cooperation and the development in this area. And this has the positive constructive significance to the development in Asian and Pacific area. U.S.'s Asian and Pacific strategy is to serve for its global strategy, and to seek strategic advantage in an area. This has the intension of expanding. The strategic target aspect, China regards the development of the country and the local place as the goal, and undertakes the nation responsibility which related to the country's power. US put its intension in developing its national interest space, maintaining the hegemony, and containing China.China and America have the common sense in development benefit, the security interests and the attention to hot topic problems. This is the cooperation foundation for China and America. The China and America has a large scope in cooperation. In the economical domain, Chinese and American economic cooperation scope expands constantly, involves commodity, investment, service, technology and so on. In the military, U.S. needs China's cooperation and participation. In politics, US needs China's understanding and support, in order to maintain its so-called"the whole world leading positions". In the international affairs, especially in the arms control, the local hot problems, est., US needs China's cooperation. The cooperation of China and America is very important to the stableness and development in Asian and Pacific area.There are constitutive contradiction and conflict between China and America. The trade friction is the potential cause for China and America conflict. The Taiwan problem probably is the most sensitive and important detonation point between China and America conflict. The security and the military contradiction are the principal contradictions in Chinese and American relations. The ideology difference in China and America may raise the cultural conflict. In order to avoid the conflict which China and America possibly occur, both countries take measures to consummate the Sino-American's cooperation mechanism positively, and carry out the principles between the two countries according to he reality. Especially in Taiwan problem, the two countries consummate the safe interaction mechanism, thus reduce the possibility to cause conflict.In the Asian and Pacific pattern, cooperate and conflict coexist simultaneously between China and America, as well as the opportunity and risk. Both the two countries should take measures to seek the common ground of interest, and reduce the conflict from the strategic altitude.The Sino-America's Asian and Pacific strategy restricts mutually, which will certainly have a profound influence to both countries'development in the 21st century. Regarding Chinese aspect, the relationship between China and America has affect in China national strategic target realization and the phase in 21st century. As to American aspect in order to expand its Asian and Pacific strategic smoothly, US cannot carry out its plan without China's support and understanding. Moreover, the Sino-America's Asian and Pacific strategic has a profound influence to the various countries relations in the Asian and Pacific area. It strengthened the interdependence of China, America and Russia, the Three Kingdoms, and impels China, America and Japan to adjust their relationship, therefore assure the Association of Southeast Asian Nations to play the balanced strategy between China and America.China and U.S. are two important countries in the world. The good-or-not-relation between the two countries not only affects the vital interest both countries, also affects the world development and peace. The strategic interaction of both countries will increase their strategic benefit convergence point in Asian and Pacific area, and both countries relations will be able to be much closer. Certainly, the Sino-American's Asian and Pacific strategy also has the competition risk, and the benign interaction of both countries is variable.