Game On International Regime Construction Between China And The United States In Asian-Pacific Region After The Cold War

Objectively,as the two most important emerging and conservative great powers,China and the United States need to safeguard their own interests with a series of international regimes under the existing international order.The current international order and its operating mechanism are a whole set of international rule system established under the dominance of the US-led western world after the World War Ⅱfor the main purpose of maintaining the interests of the west.After the establishment of Sino-U.S.relations in the late 1870s,China and the United States implement the competition and cooperation under the existing international regime.During this period,China has made full use of such international regime and gained the enormous development achievements.Moreover,the United States show the declining tendency in the global hegemony and the economic and trade competition with China in its own international regime.As the national strength of China rises sharply,the United States starts trying to regulate the international behavior of China and restrict the development speed of China with the current international regime,while China increasingly performs well under the existing international regime system and becomes the world’s second largest economic entity in 2009 by virtue of its own comparative advantage.Asian-Pacific region is the focus of competition and cooperation between China and the United States.After the Cold War,China and the United States propel and build the international economic,trade and security mechanism in its favor in this region.After 1990s,China vigorously promotes the regional economic cooperation.The ideological trend of East Asian integration with different contents and forms is gradually formed during this period.In the former ten years of 21th century,China and the United States prompt the progresses of East Asian integration and Asian-Pacific integration with mutual interweaving and overlaying.In the security field,the concept competition between the US-led "replacing peace with strength" and the China-led"new security concept" is presented.Since 2009,influenced by the "Asian-Pacific rebalance" strategy of President Obama,the conflict of economic and security mechanism in the region has become the important content of the Sino-US relations.Since Obama was in power,the US government starts to remodel the Asian-Pacific order and create new international regime system.President Obama took great pains to pursue the regional and territorial international regime such as TPP,TTIP and TISA,representing that the model of the US-led international regime construction is changed to "club model" from "global model".After absorbing the allies,partners and developed economies to join in TPP,TTIP and TISA "club",the United States made a fresh start in the existing international economic and trade mechanism system,pushed China aside,and vainly attempted to exclude China from the mainstream circle of the future international economic and trade mechanism.Moreover,China responded actively,strived for the favorable international regime construction in the Asian-Pacific region and even the world,and positively promoted the international regime transformation by the means of propelling the establishment of Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank and BRICS Bank,construction of "The Belt and Road",setting of the Silk Road Fund,and proposal of cooperation ideas of "Asian security concept" and“Community with a shared future”.The research on this topic includes the introduction,the body and the conclusion.The introduction mainly illuminates the raise of problems,object and scope of study,the current situation of research in the educational circle at home and abroad,summary of the basic concepts and main contents as well as the creation and research techniques in the thesis.Chapter Ⅱ analyzes the international regime and this is the theoretical foundation and analytical framework of the subject study.It sets forth the background,contents,characteristics and defects of international regime theory.The research holds that,the thought of European integration and union,practice of post-war European integration,defect in explanatory power of realism theory of international relation,and theoretical thought of realism theory of international relation constitute the thought,practice and theoretical background of international regime theory.The international regime theory emerged from the practice of post-war European integration,and the interdependence theory of Neoliberalism provided the theoretical basis for the international regime.The category of its explanatory power focuses on the reality of the mechanism cooperation of European and American countries.Therefore,the international regime theory is characterized by centering on Europe and America,laying emphasis on coordination of great powers,and maintaining peace by the mechanism.However,the limitation of European experience and the theoretical competition of hegemonic stability theory also reveal the limitation of international regime theory.Chapter Ⅲ summarizes the policy and background of the game of Asian-Pacific international regime construction between China and the United States.It respectively sets forth the Peripheral Strategy of China,Asian-Pacific strategy of the United States,development of East Asian economic mechanism,and development of East Asian security mechanism after the Cold War.This chapter firstly analyzes the goal of peripheral strategy of China,policy instrument,efficiency,and relationship with the international regime construction of the region,and considers that,China positively propels the peripheral economic,trade and security cooperative mechanism after the Cold War,to provide stable surroundings for maintaining its own development environment.Asian-Pacific strategy of the United States maintains contact and cooperation with China as the partner,and also takes strict precautions against China in the economic and security fields,strengthens the cooperative mechanism with allies and partners continuously,adopts the hollowing policy for the East Asian economic cooperation,and publicizes the China threat theory in various security forums.APEC,Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement and Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement in economic field,economic mechanism within ASEAN,ASEAN+X mechanism,and cooperation mechanism among China,Japan and South Korea process are the main contents of Asian-Pacific economic integration mechanism.China always keeps the policy orientation of energetic support for these mechanisms.In the security field,China takes an active part in the security cooperation projects in various regions,propagandizes the peripheral policy of China bringing harmony,security and prosperity to neighboring countries actively,and promotes many bilateral and multilateral cooperative mechanisms actively in the peninsula and marine safety areas.The United States continuously reinforces the forward deployment by the Asian-Pacific military alliance system,and brings the Cold War mentality to the 21st century.Chapter Ⅳ generalizes the competition of Asian-Pacific economic mechanism construction between China and the United States as "the game of two integrations"of East Asian integration and Asian-Pacific integration.This chapter firstly discusses the origin,process and difficulties of East Asian integration and Asian-Pacific integration,then analyzes the policy choice of China in propelling the China,Japan and South Korea process and ASEAN+X process,and propelling the construction of new mechanisms of RCEP and Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank,and analyzes the policy behavior of the United States of actively promoting the Cross-Pacific economic cooperation,intervening in the East Asian integration,and reinforcing the national economic relations of Asian-Pacific alliance.Finally,it analyzes the competition between two mechanisms of TPP and RCEP.This research deems that,the United States pushing China aside and propelling TPP constitutes the climax of the international regime competition in Asian-Pacific region between China and the United States after the Cold War,while China fully supporting RCEP is an important policy option of maintaining the position in the Asian-Pacific economic and trade mechanism.The competition of two mechanisms precisely reflects the game of China and the United States in the Asian-Pacific economic mechanism construction.This chapter analyzes the relevant issues systematically.Chapter Ⅳ generalizes the competition of Asian-Pacific security mechanism construction between China and the United States as "game of two security concepts".After the Cold War,based on the international relations theory,the United States and the western countries applied "security dilemma","hegemonic stability theory" and other concepts to build "China threat theory",hyped the issues on the sea and territorial disputes around China,and state as the international relation mainstream of the region.China makes efforts to mould the stable regional secure environment by the concepts of "bringing harmony,security and prosperity to neighboring countries”,"amity,sincerity,mutual benefit and inclusiveness","Asian security concept" and"Community with a shared future",and puts forward“new pattern of relationship between great powers" and other concepts in the hope of the stable Sino-US relation.This chapter deeply explains how China and the United States encounter in the security discussion platform of Asian-Pacific region by their own security concepts.Chapter Ⅵ discusses the cooperative potential of China and the United States in the Asia-Pacific international regime construction.The Pacific Ocean is wide enough for the joint development of China and the United States.After the Cold War,China and the United States carry out numerous cooperative projects and mechanism cooperation in the Southeast Asia,Northeast Asia and even Asian-Pacific sub-regions.For example,China and the United States successively join in Treaty of Amity and Cooperation in Southeast Asia,meaning that two countries were willing to regard it as the international law treaty to restrain its code of conduct in this region."Mekong Sub-region Economic Cooperation" and "Lower Mekong Initiative" also provide many conjunction points.China and the United States have lots of cooperative projects in the Southeast Asia region in virtue of relevant platforms.The relevant cooperation has showed good spillover effect,and may mobilize the cooperation of other fields under the concerted efforts of China and the United States.Especially,with the gradual promotion of construction of“The Belt and Road",China and the United States participating in the third-party project jointly under this frame has bright prospects.This research keeps a foothold on competition in international regime construction,separate foreign policy and important content in bilateral relation,and analyzes the trend of game between China and the United States in the Asian-Pacific international regime construction in the conclusion.After Trump in power,the United States will not play a leading role in the construction of global multilateral free trade mechanism,and will try to build the US-centered bilateral free trade network and create "spoke" system in the economic and trade field.The game between the China-dominated multilateral free trade mechanism process and the US-centered“spoke mode" bilateral free trade mechanism will be formed.In the security field,when the countries in the region are willing to confront China as the pawn of the United States but "fail" under the guidance of "security dilemma,China threat" and other theories,and its guiding ideology can only choose one of two security concepts of China and the United States,the "common,comprehensive,cooperative and sustainable" security concept of China shall prevail.The competition and game between China and the United States in the Asian-Pacific international regime construction shall be the dispute in dominant right during the profound transformation process of international order.In the case of the unfinished transformation of international order,the competition between two countries will inevitably continue.