| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立中正大學 === 政治學研究所 === 93 === The purpose of this thesis aims to explore the theoretical explanation of the overall tendency of the U.S-China Relationship after the Cold-War, and so as to examine the actual performance of U.S President George W. Bush’s China Policy. This thesis tries to use the notion of “Stopping Power of Water”and other related geopolitical concepts to patch the insufficiency of traditional realist and liberalist views, and attempt to clarify the innate character of U.S-China Relationships, and confirm the long-term consistence of u.s. China policy. This thesis is divided into six parts summarized as following:
1. Introduction: Descriptions of the motive, purpose, frame, and chapters arrangement of the research.
2. Documents Review: First, summarizing the status and the backgrounds of the U.S-China Relationships. Second, reviewing the major explanations including the power opposition opinion of realism with its pessimistic attitude, and also the mutual cooperation opinion of liberalism with its optimistic attitude. Finally, pointing out such contradict-seemed understandings of the two main schools of international relation theory and those analyzable spaces, which we could infuse geopolitics into consideration.
3. Theory Framework: This thesis quotes mainly from the concept of“Stopping Power of Water” and with the assistance of the“Balance of Threat” and“Geographic Peace” to construct a synthetic theoretical framework. The u.s. China policy has the both elements of“containment”and“engagement”, but the outside geographic conditions could quell the conflicts, as a result, the“containment”and“engagement in the U.S. China policy in fact have an order of priority which ultimately make the U.S. tend to embrace the “engagement.”
4. U.S. and China Strategic Substance Circumstance: In order to present that the objective conditions of the U.S. and China can fit into our theoretical statements and make our inference, we should first confirm that the actual data and statistics of these two countries can meet our theoretical statements. And we do it here.
5. The President George W. Bush’s China Policy: We show that the actual performance of Bush’s China policy is consistent with the theoretical inference provided earlier. This chapter is divided into two sections: first,“policy declarations”and “actual performances”. The former illustrates the U.S. new government’s attitude indeed has some slight swings, but the whole U.S-China associated relationships still remain stable. The latter surveys the new government’s China policy practices from several aspects: Taiwan issues, diplomacy, force deployment, trade, and security. We discovered that the Bush’s China Policy is basically similar to Bill Clinton’s, and does not have many changes in the overall cooperative axle.
6. Conclusion: This thesis discovered that the George W. Bush’s China Policy is an valid instance which reflects the theoretical ratiocination of “Stopping Power of Water”in U.S.-China relationship, which are “cooperations more than confrontations”and“policy consistency.”Finally, according to these arguments, the thesis estimates and holds an optimistic view about Asia’s future.
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