The speech did not present a clear vision of the US's policy toward China. Pence said that America is reaching out its hand to China and that it hopes China will reach back in the future. But his speech did not address the key issue of China-US competition. For example, what is the lower limit of China-US relations? Should the US and China adhere to a set of common rules? Should China and the US try to avoid falling into some form of new Cold War? How can China and the US move in the same direction? What sort of mechanism does the US hope to use to solve new problems in China-US relations?
这些困惑表明彭斯讲话并没有给特朗普对华政策画下句点,没有标志着美国对华新共识的形成,没有预示着中美新冷战必然发生。如何看待、处理这些困惑给中美关系的未来带来了机遇和挑战。
These omissions show that Pence's speech did not help to clarify Trump's China policy; it did not mark the creation of a new US consensus on China and it did not indicate that a new Cold War between the US and China is inevitable. Dealing with these areas of confusion presents both opportunities and challenges for future China-US relations.
在积极方面,这些困惑意味着美国对华政策的良好期望并没有完全消失。彭斯所提出的问题不少是中美关系中的长期性问题,另一些则是由于政治、意识形态因素带来的新误解。中美双方仍然有可能通过澄清误解、在利益冲突问题上展开务实对话来解决大部分问题,并且将一些难以短期内解决的问题留给将来。这种将问题分解、逐一沟通、分阶段解决的方式是1972年以来两国形成的较为成熟的模式。在解决问题的过程中,双方也有机会通过沟通寻找共同利益和创造新的合作机遇。中国官方对于彭斯讲话的回应已表明,中国没有放弃与美国建立建设性关系,不希望让当前中美关系的紧张局面放任自流。
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