Abstract:
China-U.S. relations can be described as the world’s most important bilateral relations with increasing global significance. As China continues to rise and the balance of power between China and the United States evolves, their strategic choice and interaction will grow to be the most important factor making for changes in the international situation. For quite a long time to come, the common interests of China and the United States will expand, with greater need and willingness on both sides to cooperate with each other for their own interests. Meanwhile, the issue of China-U.S. strategic mutual trust or the lack of it will also become more prominent. The two countries need to build a new model of major-country relations.
To translate the diplomatic notion of “win-win cooperation” to practice in Sino-U.S. relations is crucial to the building of the new model of major-country relations. A win-win cooperative relationship between the two countries is premised on their common interests and serves as an indispensable means to build towards strategic mutual trust. To build such a relationship, it is imperative to explore the potential for Sino-U.S. win-win cooperation as well as the conditions and means to realize the potential so as to help shape future policy priorities and specific plans in this regard.
Although China and the United States are in a state of competition in Southeast Asia, South Asia, the Middle East, Africa and Latin America, the potential for the two countries to cooperate and achieve win-win results in these regions does exist. These five regions are of special strategic importance to both China and the United States, and an in-depth research into these regions will help explore the ways for the two countries to enhance mutual trust and expand cooperation so that a new model of major-country relations could be gradually built up. This report focuses on the potential, problems and possible solutions for achieving a win-win cooperative relationship between China and the United States in the aforementioned regions.
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