After all, while decades of bilateral dialogue have given the United States and Russia a good sense of each other’s strategic perspectives – including the issues on which they disagree – China’s perception of strategic stability is unfamiliar. But trilateral dialogues, catalyzed by skillful US diplomacy, could also serve as an opportunity to manage the countries’ strategic relations, which currently are characterized by contradictions and mistrust.
这样的举措无疑会让谈判形势复杂化。毕竟几十年的双边对话已经让美俄双方非常熟悉对方的战略诉求，其中也包括双方的分歧。但中国对战略稳定的看法却是全新的课题。尽管存在困难，但在美国外交的巧妙推动下，三边对话也可以成为管理目前充满矛盾和不信任的国家战略关系的一次难得的机遇。