Whereas the US and the Soviet Union had limited trade and social contact, the US is China’s largest overseas market, welcomed and facilitated China’s entry into the World Trade Organization, and opens its universities’ gates to 125,000 Chinese students each year. If current US policy towards China is supposed to be Cold War-style containment, it seems unusually warm.
但是，美国对华政策不同于对前苏联的压制战略。冷战时期，美苏间只有相当有限的双边贸易和民间往来。如今，中国商品主要出口到美国；中国入世受到美国的欢迎和协助；每年有十二万五千名中国学生踏入美国大学校门。若将如此种种成为冷战式的压制政策未免不太合理。