The Evolution Of Sino-U.S.-japan Trilateral Relations And China’s Strategic Choice

As the U.S. with more attention back to the Asia-Pacific, the country power of China rises abruptly and the trend of Japan to stride forward to a normal country gets more and more obvious. Nowadays, the development of trilateral relationship among China, the U.S. and Japan has become a hot issue of big countries and specific regions research. In today’s international system transformation, the Sino-U.S.-Japan trilateral relations benefit structure is extremely complex, competition and cooperation, conflict and coordination of the United States and Japan weave interaction networks. In the process of multipolarization of the world, the focus interests of three countries tends to diversity and enhance the interdependence of the three countries. Then, the research of inter-state relations should be converted perspective to its interaction with the development of trilateral relations concerns.At first, the paper describes the development of trilateral relationship theory and the type of the trilateral relations, and summarizes position of the trilateral relations in international relations. The historical review of Sino-U.S.-Japan trilateral relations as a start point, and further analyzes the main features of the development of trilateral relations after the Cold War. Through the dispute of Diaoyu Islands, analyze the main factors affected the development of the present trilateral relations. Make a simple summary: first, the deepening of dependence and competition of the trilateral relationship. Second, China has become a more important role among three countries. Third, the trilateral interactive relationship gets more complex and the impact of the trilateral relations enhance constantly. The influence of trilateral to the asia-pacific region and even the world of security and development become more and more profound. Finally, make an analysis on China’s strategic choice in Sino-U.S.-Japan trilateral relations in detail, points out the necessity of bilateral mechanism expand to three side mechanism. There is a huge impact of Sino-U.S.-Japan trilateral relations on regional politics and security not only in east Asia but also even the entire Asia-Pacific region. And then discuss how to make a comprehensive strategic partnership between China and Russia and promote the development of China and the United States in order to establish a new model of major-country relations between China and the United States. Emphasis on promote the coordinated development of the national defense construction and economic construction Strengthen the maintenance of maritime rights and interests. China is committed to the development of the strategic navy.The development of Sino-U.S.-Japan trilateral relations has far-reaching impact on the entire pattern of stability in the Asia-pacific region. The interactive among China, United States and Japan will directly affect their region’s strategic direction, at the same time if the three countries can be able to reach a balance for strategic cooperation on a global scale and it will be helpful to solve regional and global affairs.