According to the viewpoint of the new realism theory,threat is the basic factor of generating and maintaining an ally.In order to curb the rise of China and maintain the dominance of the United States,the United States tries to carry out the all-round diplomacy in the Asia-pacific region in the new century,high-profile returns to Asia Pacific,consolidates and expands its Allies in Asia.The US has also built up a whole system,gradually formed on the east,south,west of China,those three directions made an encirclement out of China.It has been a serious threat to the safety of China.Breakthrough turns to be imperative for China’s future development.The wedge strategy has long be used to divide an ally,the national behavior tries to prevent potential rival coalition,formation or differentiation.Disrupt,dismantle hostile alliance has been formed.The integrated use of resources,such as politics,economy,military,confrontational or adjustment strategy has become the main way of wedge strategy.Mainly be called as the strategy of alliance division,its main functions are succeed by influencing the alliance,especially the core mechanism ofinterest relations and implementation.If it can be successful,wedge strategy as the differentiation of countries can destroy the force of the rival countries organized form power conversion and obtain benefits.China’s foreign strategy is given priority to defense,by means of the implementation of wedge defensive strategy.It tries to form a new partnership and destroy the hostile alliance,then to reorganize,weaken and isolate the main threat,to maintain its own security goals and increase the likelihood of relative power.According to the basic concept of international relations research,leading the US rebalancing strategy and wedge strategy theory as the breakthrough point of studying,the whole paper has been divided into six parts.The first part,introduces the purpose,significance,innovation points and the frame structure,classification and the related literature in China and abroad.The second part,the paper puts forward the research question that under the current international situation how can China use the wedge strategy to cope with external checks and balances from the United States;The third part,through the empirical analysis verify the question assumptions.Carding the history of alliance strategy,focusing on the analysis of the Asia-pacific re-balancing strategy implementation intentions and approaches;The fourth part,carries on the content of the third part,analyzing the way of China using the wedge strategy of differentiation against the United States.How to use wedge strategy with different goals and intentions;The fifth part,through practice and examples to verify China’s defensive wedge strategy.The last part of paper summarized the whole thesis and made a conclusion. |