On The Relationship Of China And European Community During The Cold War

The dissertation will put the relationship of China and European Community under the background of long period of investigation in the cold war. From the historical angle of exploring the interactive relationship between China and the European characteristics and evolution course, the author will analyze the international background and the thought of the cold war which influence China and European Community, and summarizes the relationship between China and European sides for achieving common interests and undertaking across ideology divergence, opposing hegemonic cooperation experiences to strengthen the regional international political and economic cooperation under the situation of international relations handling qualification significance.The dissertation, by the dialectical and historical materialism as a guidance and history empirical research as a foundation, uses comprehensively the multidisciplinary research methods, longitudinal cut and transverse analysis, combines the history and reality. The author combines with the cold war under the background of China and subjectivity to scientific orientation, plays a prominent role in external international political situation and endogenous environment change. The relations between the two sides are the relative autonomy rather than the completely dependence, the interdependence rather than the direct confrontational, the political guidance rather than the complete trade.According to the basic of the pattern of the world on the international relation influence, the particularity of China and European Community as the cold war of the main body, the stage of the cold war under the background of the development of relations between China and European Community and the decision of the national interests of international political behavior affecting foreign activities, the dissertation is divided into five chapters.The first chapter selects the background of the cold war as a starting point, discusses the academic researches on the existing cold war on the basis of understanding and limitations and leads the concept of the cold-war subject. At the same time the author makes the thorough analysis of the cold war, gets the differences of specialized subject exploring the superpower extrusion of China and European Community as the main body in the process of the cold war, shows the particularity for the breakthrough point of the main content expansion and provides theoretical foundations.The main part of the thesis, according to the relation of China and European Community during the cold war under the background of the evolution of phased characteristics, is divided into four chapters. Chapter Two is about rivalries period in China and the integration of Western Europe early. The third chapter is about the detente period in the establishment and development between China and the European Community. The forth is about new China and European Community relations during the cold war. The last is about the tortuous development at the end of the cold war period in China and European Community's relationship.From the end of 1940s to the early 1960s, the U.S.-Soviet led the sharp confrontation period as the two camps. Both depth and breadth in the cold war expanded rapidly. The confrontation was escalating and had a strong ideology color. China of Asia and western European countries of Europe became the forefront confrontation threat in the cold war, which was the most direct and the most serious threat. In order to obtain survival and security, China and western European countries respectively belonged to opposing two camps. Both sides had no direct conflict,but each seldom contacted with the other. China, to the European integration, viewed with quite a number of consciousness prejudices, whichharnpered to European integration understanding of objectivity and delayed the normal relationship of Sino-Euro.From the early 1960s to the late 1970s, the confrontation of the international relations in the cold war was easing. The faction of the cold war started to split and collapse, the international political system began with the multi-polarization and the trend of the momentum was getting more and more obvious. In the new situation, the common security needs of China and the European communities is becoming the most important strategic interest to stop superpower nuclear competition and safeguard world peace which become the basis of mutual cooperation. The relationship between China and the European Union member states is developing rapidly and China has formally established diplomatic relations with the European Economic Community.In the 1980s, Soviet-American relations backed to combat the new cold war. A new cold war against continuance time was not long, the antagonism degree gentle, the concerning scope narrow. The respective allies of the U.S.-Soviet dealt with Soviet-American policies and actions differently and kept a considerable distance. Basically China had no intervention. China and the European sides are in a relatively loose international environment, which can better understand their mutual economic and political interests and international obligations. The common development of interest in promoting the relationship has got into the best period in history.From the late 1980s to the early 1990s, the Soviet Unions and the socialist countries of the Eastern Europe came into upheaval in relatively flat international background. The U.S.-Soviet dominant poles of the standoff pattern began to divorce. NATO and the Warsaw Treaty, two major militaries and political groups, led to an end. The communist movement bottomed in the world. The western countries launched the peaceful evolution and the strong offensive to China. The European Unions and its member states unilaterally sanctions against China with a series of measures, which made China and the European relationship deign to cold. However, the relations between the two sides soon became warm and continued to grow.The dissertation selects the national interest as a theoretical analysis of the logical starting point and deeply analyses the basic reason between China and the European Community's evolution and development. The author makes the prospects for China and European Community's development, and then completes the theory analysis and summary under the background of the cold war between China and European Community.