碩士 / 國立政治大學 / 國家安全與大陸研究碩士在職專班 / 101 / In the 21st century, tension mounted at the South China Sea over territorial disputes. With the “return-to-Asia” strategy, the United States called for those seven sovereign states to solve the disputes with the multilateralism while China persisted with the unilateralism and rejected the interference of other major nations. The attitude and strategy that two major-powers took made the situation of the South China Sea dispute unpredictable. In 2012, Barack Obama was elected as the 45th President of the United State while Xi Jingping was promoted as the Chairman of China. Both two leaders stated that “respecting each other’s core interests, mutually beneficial cooperation, enhancing cooperation and coordination in the international affairs and on global issues” and constructed the new type of Major-Power Relations, which should have impact on the situation of the South China Sea dispute and must be concerned.
In 2010, China became the world’s second-largest economy. As of 2012, China’s total trade value amounted to US$3.867 trillion, which is %1.18 more than US$3.822 trillion of United States. China has become the biggest trading nation and shown its economy power. The J-20 made its first flight in 2011 and the Beidou Navigation Satellite System (BDS) operated in 2000 and began offering services to customers in the Asia-Pacific region in December 2012, which showed the significant progress of China’s development of military and aviation technology. As to foreign relations, China adopts the unilateralism strategy that “the major nations are the pivot, the periphery countries are the priority, the developing countries are the fundaments, and the multilateral cooperation is the stage”, which makes China as the challenger to the United States.
During the Post Cold War era, the United States was undoubtedly the most powerful state in the world. Facing the emerging of China, the U.S. worries its leading status in Asia-Pacific region. In 2009, President Obama proposed the strategy “return-to-Asia”, emphasizing that the region should be led by the United States. He said that he was the America’s first “Pacific President” when President Obama attended the APEC in Singapore, which signified the intention to maintain the leadership in Asia-Pacific region.
U.S.-China Ties is definitely the most important bilateral relation in the current world. The mutual economic dependence, the arms race and the foreign policy and strategy will be the crucial factors for two major powers in constructing the “new type Major-Power relations”. How the situation of the South China Sea dispute proceeds depends on the moves of two major powers. The influence of U.S.’s and China’s constructing New Type of Major-Power Relations upon the situation of the South China Sea dispute is discussed in this research.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:TW/101NCCU5025033 |
| Creators | Lin. Shu Feng, 林淑芬 |
| Contributors | 朱新民 |
| Source Sets | National Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations in Taiwan |
| Language | zh-TW |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | 學位論文 ; thesis |
| Format | 110 |
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