从中国与冷战关系的角度看,中苏关系正常化的进程反映了中国对外政策逐步摆脱冷战时期形成的战略思维框架,以及中国决策层在改革开放中逐步形成和丰富起来的外交新理念。建国初期,中国领导人选择的发展战略是追随苏联的模式,对外政策则选择了“一边倒”与苏联结盟。经历了近三十年的动荡与波折,中国领导人终于提出了“中国特色的社会主义道路”,并选择了“独立自主的不结盟的和平外交”,这标志着自1950年代末以来,中国的国家发展战略与外交政策终于又一次实现了根本性的协调,其结果就是“告别冷战”。 Seen from the perspective of the relationship between China and the Cold War, the process of normalization of Sino‐Soviet relations was one by which China gradually shifted its foreign policy from a Cold War strategic framework to new diplomatic ideas shaped and developed by Chinese policy makers in the course of reform and opening up. In the early period after the founding of the People's Republic the Chinese leadership chose to follow the Soviet model in development strategy and adopt a foreign policy of “leaning to one side,” allying itself with the Soviet Union. After nearly three decades of upheavals and vicissitudes, the Chinese leadership finally stepped on to the “socialist road with Chinese characteristics” and chose the “independent and non‐aligned foreign policy of peace.” This marked a fundamental readjustment to China's national development strategy and foreign policy since the late 1950s the result of which was a “farewell to the Cold War.”