The Efficiency of China's Policy towards the United States

Abstract

During the late 1980s, with adjustments in USSR foreign policy and the continued easing of US–Soviet tensions, the forces driving China–US cooperation against Soviet expansion gradually lost momentum. The divergence of Chinese and American strategy has become increasingly apparent, and China’s posture towards the United States has adapted to changes in the strategic environment. Since the 1990s, the changing nature of China–US relations and the restructuring of China’s US policy have received extensive scholarly attention, resulting in a collection of high-quality research. This research can be divided broadly into three types: 1 (1) analysing the external factors guiding China’s US policy, and then positing recommendations; 2 (2) describing China’s US policy in the context of China’s grand strategy, and then forecasting policy evolution or analysing policy rationale (most work uses this methodology) 3 and (3) describing the course of Sino–American