Analysis Of The Obama Administration’s China Policy

The foreign policy American used to China has always been described as“containment”&“contact”, the Obama Government has been partly inherited thispolicy, but this paper try to find out the Obama Administration’s China policyappeared slight adjustment, these can be describe for “the economy to a soft contact&military hard intervention policy”. And at the same time, six parts will be viewed toapproach this policy: firstly, may be the economic relations between America andChina; secondly, the problems refer to the exchange rate of RMB; thirdly, theproblems about Taiwan; fourthly, the different interests in East&South Asia; fifthly,the problems among climate policy；sixthly, the Obama Administration’s China policyin the field of human rights.As long as his duration, US government’s policy toward China has shown somenow features: firstly, the key point of his policy is national interests. Secondly, hispolicy toward China becomes more and more mature and rational. This feature can beshown by next points: firstly, there are lots of common benefits between China andAmerican; secondly, the strategic dialogue mechanism become more perfect andmature; thirdly, the new energy cooperation has been achieving to a new height.Thirdly, his policy turns to integration and balance.The process of foreign policy making is affected by next factors: firstly, theinternational situation has been changed greatly; secondly, the government staff’sopinions are different from their former; thirdly, the analysis of interest group.Through these analyses, follow result will give out: the Obama Administration has thesame policy to China,“containment”&“contact”, along with this, Obama pay moreattention to “Co-operation” with China for achieving target in this globalizationworld.On the basic of the above analysis, we can predict that Sino-American will bekeep this contact and co-operation in the economic area, but the disputes will becontinue exist in the traditional topics.