Generate Trust And Destruction Of Strategic Reasons Between Countries

China and India have experienced the early friendship and long-term hostilityafter border conflict and made a series of achievements in political, economic andinternational cooperation so far since the establishment of diplomatic ties betweenChina and India. The development of Sino-India bilateral relation is not smooth inhistory and the two countries are still in deep distrust, affecting bilateral relations to adeeper level of development and the achievement strategic goals, so we must be fullyaware of the importance of strengthening strategic trust between China and India toSino-India bilateral relations and actively take effective measures to strengthenbilateral strategic trust. Strengthening strategic trust must first find the factors whichaffect strategic trust.The main body of the paper is divided into seven parts. The first part introducesdomestic and foreign research status on strategic trust.The second part discusses thedefinition of strategic trust. Strategic trust between countries can be defined as one orboth parties in a certain international structure are willing to cooperation afterconsidering that cooperation is conducive to their own strategic interests and the otherparty will not be expected to default the contract. The third part analyzes the factorsthat affect strategic trust. The factors are country type, strategic interests, andinstitutional arrangements for exchange and intercourse. Strategic trust is generatedonly if the two sides are both security seekers, strategic trust can not produce if one ofthem or both of them are expansionists. If the security seekers are also homogeneouscountries, high levels of strategic trust is very likely to produce. In security interests, acommon external threat may form a high level of strategic trust between the twocountries. The level of strategic trust in security will be very low if there aresignificant interest conflicts in security, which will affect the strategic trust in otherareas. The two countries will have a high level of strategic trust if exchangeinstitutional arrangements exist, and vice versa. It is difficult to establish strategictrust and easily to destroy it. A great negative effect will appear once it is destroyed.The fourth part analyzes the country types of China and India. China was a security seeker at the district level and India was an expansionist at the district level beforeSino-Indian border conflict in1962, therefore they did not have strategic trust whicheventually led to a border conflict. China and India are heterogeneous countries, sothe two countries will not form a high level of trust even India’s expansion havedeclined after the border conflict. The fifth part analyzes the strategic trust betweenChina and India from the strategic interests. Today, there are not common externaltreats, but mutual treats instead，so the strategic trust in security is very low. Strategictrust from economy is also low and subject to political relations impact. The sixth partanalyzes the lack of exchange institutional arrangement between the two countriescould not make the strategic trust at international level stable, and could not extendthe strategic trust to the regional level in their early exchange period. Now, the twosides are trying to establish confidence-building measures at district level, and alsoforming multilateral institutional arrangements at international level, which isexpected to enhance the level of strategic trust and deepen mutual cooperation. Theseventh part is the conclusion, the history of exchanges between China and Indiaillustrates that country type, strategic interests, and exchange institutionalarrangements are the main factors which affect strategic trust. Strategic trust affectscooperation and conflict between countries.