The Second Bush Administration's Global Strategy and China-US Constructive Cooperative Relations

The reelection of George W. Bush indicates that the main characteristic of US global strategy is its continuity. With changes at home and abroad, however, President Bush will make some modest adjustments in US global strategy and Asia Pacific policy in his second term, with focus on the greater Middle East and relations between great powers. At the same time, the fighting against terrorism and nuclear proliferation will be more closely integrated with the safeguarding of Americas leading position in the world. The coming four years will also be a key period for elevating and deepening the China US relationship. Initial consensus has been reached between the two countries on the interactive principle of core interests, important interests and general interests, and related operational mechanisms have also been formed. Meanwhile, the China US relationship has assumed an increasingly multilateral facet, and the two countries need to enrich their constructive cooperation, strengthen the construction of mechanisms, substantiate the content of strategic dialogue, and handle the Taiwan issue from the strategic and all dimensional perspective so as to stabilize and develop this relationship.