Research On Deepening Sino-U.S. Strategic Trust Based On Economic Interdependence

Sino-U.S.strategic trust is the result of long-term interaction between the two countries.International cooperation is the best way to achieve strategic win-win between China and the United States.It is undeniable that the rationalist trust based on the pursuit of national interests has become the main form of Sino-U.S.strategic trust.The long-term economic cooperation between the two countries brings mutually beneficial material interests,which has become the driving force for building China US strategic trust.Since the 2008 financial crisis,the gap in comprehensive strength between China and the United States has gradually decreased,and the strategic mutual doubt between the two countries has intensified.Although there are economic and trade frictions,the two sides still maintain limited benign interaction in the economic field,the degree of economic interdependence has deepened,and economic and trade cooperation has been frequent.However,since Trump came to power,the outbreak of Sino-U.S.trade war has seriously damaged the degree of trust between the two sides.The focus of this paper is: Economic and trade frictions between countries are the norm of economic and trade exchanges,but after the Sino-U.S.trade war,the attitudes of both sides changed,and the mutual trust between China and the United States lost sharply.What is the reason for this change? Based on the defects of the current Sino-U.S.strategic trust,how to promote the development of Sino-U.S.strategic trust to a higher level?When analyzing the formation path of China US strategic trust,academic scholars often study it from the three dimensions of rationality,system and culture.Due to the lack of stable emotion trust foundation and fragile external institutional mechanism between China and the United States,scholars believe that trust in the economic field between China and the United States is basically formed based on the mutually beneficial material interests of both sides.However,some scholars doubt the effectiveness and stability of this traditional way of “promoting trust through economy”.Taking the Sino-U.S.trade war as the node,more and more views tend to the latter.Based on the theory of “economic interdependence” and the analysis of realistic data,this paper finds that the economic interdependence between China and the United States is still very close after the Sino-U.S.trade war,but the economic interdependence has not produced a corresponding level of trust between the two countries.Therefore,studying the root causes of the rapid loss of strategic trust between the two sides after the Sino-U.S.trade war is conducive to answering the question of the effectiveness and stability of “promoting trust through economy”.The fragility and situational defects of Sino-U.S.rationalist trust model are not enough to ensure the long-term stability of bilateral cooperation and mutual trust.Therefore,starting from the three dimensions of strategic trust,this paper uses other dimensions to make up for the shortcomings and limitations of rationalist strategic trust.However,due to the long-term basis of economic and trade cooperation and close interdependence between China and the United States,there is still room for mutually beneficial cooperation in the economic field.Consequently,Sino-U.S.rationalist strategic trust should be the mainstream,constantly broaden the ways and means of strategic trust between the two sides,and strive to build a basic and comprehensive strategic mutual trust between China and the United States.