Yu, Hongjun

Abstract
In recent years, the “new-type relationship between major powers” has become a hot-topic term in the studies of international politics and international relations. Why is it necessary to build a new-type relationship between major powers? What are the essence and the connotation of such relationship? How to build it against the backdrop of a rapidly changing world that is undergoing a profound structural reform and the evolving balance of international forces in international relations in all fields and at all levels? What are the differences and commonalities between such relationship and the traditional big-power relationship? What is the roadmap for building toward such relationship and what are the prospects? – all these questions are arousing a heated debate and everybody’s deep thinking in the international community today, and therefore they are also topical subjects in earnest studies in foreign affairs authorities of the Chinese Government and among Chinese experts and scholars.
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