Beyond the New Strategic Tango——Sino-American Relations in the Interregnum of Global War on Terror

【摘要】：正Abstract for a presentation at the Beijing Forum Beijing Hotel,15-18 November,2005 Against a diverse range of assessments of Sino-American relations in the recent past,and the projection of its future in both China and the United States,this presentation makes four broad claims.First,the global war on terror has transformed in fundamental ways our understanding of the emerging global order;and the dynamics of global politics.Secondly,in so doing,it provides a new foundation,however precarious and fragile,for the strategic cooperation between China and the United States in the Asia-Pacific as well as globally.Thirdly,this new strategic tango of the two is susceptible to consolidated realist thinking and idealist pursuit of respective foreign policy goals of both China and the United States dictated by their respective grand strategies to realize different and sometimes conflicting visions of the emerging global order.And finally,however protracted the global war on terror may be,it only provides an interregnum for China and the United States to rediscover or re-invent a more enduring foundation for their long-term strategic cooperation,which ultimately depends on their search for a firm anchor in the possible convergence of their grand strategic goals.