Game Playing Between China And U.S.in The Global Environmental Governance

With the deepening of globalization, global environmental issues have aroused widespread concern in the international community. Due to the spillover effects of global environmental issues, international cooperation has become the main form of environmental governance among the sovereign states. China and the United States are recognized as the major environmental powers in the world. Therefore both sides are facing serious environmental problems and governance pressures. At present, China and the United States have established a multi-level, multi-channel and multi-field of environmental cooperation. This is not only a positive response of the international reality, but also a practical consideration which reflects both China's and U.S.'s national interests. The U.S.-China environmental cooperation has profound effect on both two countries and the world. However, we can not ignore the increasingly obvious environmental governance contradictions between China and U.S., Especially in the climate change issue. The two countries have insurmountable differences. Basically, the reason why two countries have differences is that the two major environmental states are contesting and realigning the rights and obligations when they are shaping the new international order. The global environmental cooperation between the two countries will have distinct dual characters in the future. How to occupy the dominant position when games with the U.S? For China, it is important.Part 1 Global environmental governance and GameThis paper starts from the global environmental governance and game theory methods. First, the basic concepts of environmental issues, characteristics, types and resolution mechanism have been introduced. Then, the global environmental problems lead to the concept of global environmental governance. And from theoretical perspective, the paper analyzes the subject and the content of governance, as well as the governance principle, standard and value. Meanwhile, from practical perspective, it summarizes the historical evolution of the global environmental governance. Finally, it verifies the rationality and feasibility of the game theory when this theory analyses the main interaction between the main parts of the global environmental governance.Part 2 Sino-US Cooperation in the Field of Global EnvironmentalGovernanceAs the subjects of global governance and environmental powers in the world, both China and U.S. have established a multi-channel, multi-level as well as multi-field cooperation on environmental protection. First, it reviewed the Sino-U.S. participation history in global environmental governance, and introduced the present situation of environmental cooperation between the two countries. Secondly, it uses the deer hunting game model to analyze China and U.S.'s motive of environmental cooperation. Finally, it describes the impact of the environmental cooperation between China and U.S.Part 3 Sino-US Differences in the Field of solving the Global Environmental IssuesIt includes the different cognitions and preferences of the two states'in their global environmental cooperation, the different views of the allocation of governance responsibilities and sovereignty transfer, as well as the debate of U.S.'s green trade barriers. In this section, the article will use the Pigs Game model to analyze the different views of the two countries in the fields of governance responsibilities and obligations.Part 4 Case Study-Game between China and U.S. in the Global Climate Change IssueClimate change issue as a global hot spot, it can be best to show how intense between both states in environmental governance game. In this part, it summarizes the climate negotiation history of the international community over the past fifteen years. Then, it sets Copenhagen Climate Change Conference as an example to examine the game between China and U.S. in the process of international negotiations and contract.Part 5 Prospects of the Sino-US cooperation on the global environmental governanceThe analysis of the above is important to propose a forward-looking conclusion. This part predicts the prospect of China and U.S. participation in the global environmental governance in the future. For China, It should not only be based on the domestic, namely, to remedy the defects of environmental governance, but also scan widely to the world, and adhere to cooperate and struggle.