August 7, 2017

After the Cold War, as China gradually narrowed its gap with the US in overall national strength, its political and economic development deviated from US expectations in obvious ways.

When the US gradually realized that a rising China wouldn't become more like the US, but instead a challenger, its anxiety grew. The US has tended to deal with China in a head-on and tough manner. As a result, US strategy on China has turned increasingly negative, evolving from "engagement" to "engagement and caution" and later "engagement and counterbalance."

Meanwhile, the impetus for the development of China-US relations began to grow. The increasingly high interdependence on each other and close cooperation on global and regional affairs hindered the US impulse to subvert the relationship.

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