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A New Model of China-US Big Power Relations: A Symbolic Sign in Foreign Affairs



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Siyuan Huang

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DOI:10.17265/2328-2134/2016.06.001

To cope with the current crisis and tensions full-filled China-US relationship, Chinese President Xi Jinping put forward the concept of building a new model of China-US big power relations, which the US agrees. Yet the new model won a heated discussion. In China this new model was evaluated positively and optimistically, while in the US it was perceived as a strategic challenge or even a threat. In the present article, the author proposes that this new model of China-US big power relations is more like a symbolic sign in foreign affairs rather than a strategic challenge or a threat or an effective and workable mechanism at this moment, and meanwhile analyses this view from diachronic and semiotic perspectives. The analyses reveal that the new model functions as a symbolic sign, signifying to the world that conceptually the two big powers have a good and harmonious relationship.

a new model of China-US big power relations, a symbolic sign, diachronic perspective, semiotic perspective

Huang， S. Y. (2016). A new model of China-US big power relations: A symbolic sign in foreign affairs. International Relations and Diplomacy, 4(6), 371-377.