中国当前正处在深刻的政治和经济改革之中。这一事实已开始引起东亚地区战略、经济和政治情势的变化。经过二十多年的断断续续的政治和经济动乱之后,中国的领导人对过去的发展政策进行了彻底的重新估价,并且不遗余力地重新设计通向现代化的道路。从70年代后期开始的政治、经济和制度的改革在庞大的、中央计划的政治和经济机制的历史上是史无前例的。实际上,中国的杰出领袖、这场改革的主要设计师邓小平把它称之为“第二次革命”。中国在同外部世界关系方面,已把经济放在政治之前。目前看来,这场改革的意义似乎主要在政治和经济方面,但就它与美国、苏联和东亚关系求说,其潜 China is currently undergoing profound political and economic reforms. This fact has begun to cause changes in the strategic, economic and political conditions in East Asia. After more than 20 years of intermittent political and economic turmoil, the Chinese leaders conducted a thorough revaluation of past development policies and spared no effort in redesigning the path to modernization. The political, economic and institutional reforms that began in the late 1970s are unprecedented in the history of massive, centrally planned political and economic mechanisms. In fact, Deng Xiaoping, China’s illustrious leader and the chief architect of the reform, called it “the second revolution.” China has placed its economy ahead of politics in its relations with the outside world. At the moment, it seems that the significance of this reform appears to be mainly political and economic, but its potential as far as its relations with the United States, the Soviet Union and East Asia are concerned