The U.S. Presidential Election Under The Perspective Of The Feminist International Relations Theory

The emergence of feminist international relations theory provides a new perspective for the study of international relations. The feminist focused on the study of gender issues which had been ignored in international relations theory, presented the "social gender", "international relations", "empathy politics" and a series of concepts through researching, strive for rebuilding traditional male-dominated international relations theory and break the gender bias in the international politics, found that women in international relations or put women into international relations, and let more women to participate.After the Second World War, under the background of the era of peace and development, with the push of the women’s movement and national soft power, female politicians group raised. More and more countries around the world have female leaders and female heads of government. There even emerges a phenomenon that female cabinet members are more than male in Europe. Unlike early family succession, a growing number of women stood on the peak of the power with their hard work. They played a positive role in promoting women’s status, realize the equality between men and women and promote world peace and development. Although these female politicians have different politic roads and ruling style, they also have a lot in common,such as ultra high degree, extraordinary courage no worse than men, strong endurance,rich management experience and good temperament image. Unlike male emphasize "control", most female politicians claim "cooperation", pay attention to communication and show a kind of "soft power". But what need to face is, although there’s already some women stood on the center of the political stage, but the quantity still less than men. For now it is still very hard to influence the international relations and promote the evolution of international relations.As a veteran of the capitalist countries, although the development of women’s movement in the United States is very early, but women’s influence is still missing in many ways in the United States, especially the female members of the core power sector are still very few. As Hillary Clinton announced her candidacy for the 2016 U.S.presidential election, America’s "female President" topic has received high attention again. Hillary Clinton was lost to Obama in the Democratic Party’s presidentialnomination in 2008 primary, but the American people still think she is most likely to become the first female President in American history. With unfinished dream "to return to the White House" and more and more American women voters’ expectation Hillary comes back in 2016. Hillary Clinton’s candidacy undoubtedly provides more issues and new angle of view for the study of American political, such as the reason why Hillary Clinton election defeat in 2008, again the resistance in the race she will face, "female identity" is her advantage or disadvantage, the political reality of her "female President dream", and so on, we can treat Hillary’s candidacy as an example to study the effect of gender politics on the general election.As the world’s superpower, the position of United States is very important in the international community. If a woman runs the country, will politics and foreign policy in the United States change? Hillary Clinton is not only the most popular Democratic Party presidential candidate, but also the most familiar “political star" with the international community, she ever put forward policy proposals with "hawk" logo which had a great impact in the United States and the international community. However the moral between politicians and ordinary people are completely different, making policy should not shift with the individual will. After women served as head of state, her policy is not only on behalf of women, but also men,and she represents the interest groups and the public’s point of view. Although female politicians also tough in dealing with some problems, but from the point of practice, whether America will have a woman President,American politics and foreign policy will not occur a fundamental change.China-US relations is one of the most important bilateral relations between the two countries, but there are lots of contradictions and conflicts in ideology, economy and trade, geopolitics and security between the two countries, many differences in such aspects as historical background, values and social system. China issue is an eternal hot topic. In American election campaign 2016, the whole debate atmosphere of China issues was negative. But no matter how aggressive the expressions of the "language" in campaign, there is no denying that, there are both the converging interests between China and the United States, and also obvious differences and contradictions. Various factors make the relations are in a very complex situation, the direction of China-US relations ultimately depends on the definition of their respective national interests, and both sides constantly adjust the policies due to the changing national interest. The impact of the "gender politics" in the 2016 US presidential election on the China-US relations still cannot go beyond the iron law of power and interests.