Abstract：Due to economic globalization, trade and investment liberalization and the trend of regional collectivization forced the United States to emphasis on the Asia-Pacific region; the rise of China caused the United States urgent needs to maintain their own supremacy; the financial crisis has created a large number of the United States bankruptcy or restructuring of financial institutions, the United States put the strategy for the economic recovery to focus on the Asia-Pacific region. The United States return to Asia through a series of measures, the most important way is TPP (Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement). TPP is also called as the “economic NATO”, which is an important international multilateral economic negotiations organization, a free trade agreements of “high standard of the 21st century”, the channel of American re-engagement with Asia. Therefore, China should pay close attention to the policy of American re-engagement with Asia, improve the overall comprehensive national strength, strengthen friendly relations and cooperation with APEC members, and strengthen exchanges and cooperation with the United States. This thesis spreads out exposition from the Sino-US relations, the United States to return to Asia strategy, the future development of Sino-US relations and TPP, analyzing the strategy of American re-engagement with Asia and the impact on Sino-US relations.

Key words: American Diplomacy; Re-engagement with Asia; Sino-US relation; TPP(Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement)

CONTENTS

摘要

Abstract

Chapter 1 The history of the development of Sino-US relations1

1.1 An outline of China and America1

1.1.1 China1

1.1.2 America1

1.2 The history of the development of Sino-US relations2

Chapter 2 The stratgey of American re-engagement with Asia5

2.1 The reason for the United States to return to Asia-Pacific6

2.2 The impact of China on the development of Asia-Pacific7

Chapter 3 About TPP and WTO9

3.1 About TPP9

3.2 About WTO9

3.3 Common ground between the TPP and WTO10

3.4 Different points between the TPP and WTO10

3.4.1 Different members10

3.4.2 The differences of the content and features11

3.4.3 Different purposes11

3.4.4 Different status and influence12

Chapter 4 TPP:The channel of American re-engagement with Asia14

4.1 The reason for America promoting the TPP14

4.2 The channel of American re-engagement with Asia17

Chapter 5 The influence of TPP strategy on China20

5.1 Economic Impact20

5.2 Political Influence22

5.3 Strategic Influence23

Chapter 6 The influence of American re-engagement with Asia on China and China’s countermeasure25

6.1 The influence of American re-engagement with Asia on China25

6.2 China’s countermeasure on American re-engagement with Asia26

Chapter 7 The prospect of Sino-US relations and world peace28

7.1 Gather one plus one is greater than the force28

7.2 The new era requires new pillars29

7.3 To become a “cooperative” rather than the “arena”30

Conclusion32