通过分别参加泛太平洋伙伴关系协定(TPP)和区域综合经济伙伴协议(RCEP),中美两国正各自寻求关于亚太地区经济一体化的策略。两国都将其各自的区域性安排视为朝着亚太经合组织的区域间自由贸易和投资这一长期目标发展。TPP和RCEP在未来自由贸易协定的义务条款的宽度和深度方面的差异十分明显。两者都不可能是发展一个亚太自由贸易协定的模板,而两个方案的经历实质上意味着更为广泛的亚太一体化进程的推进。达成亚太自由贸易协定最可能的路径是将TPP的一部分和亚洲内部贸易一体化连接在一起的混合方案。这样一种预期安排在开展亚太自由贸易协定的背景下为深化中美双边贸易关系提供了一个很好的机会。 By separately participating in the TPP and RCEP, China and the United States are each seeking a strategy on economic integration in the Asia Pacific region. Both countries see their respective regional arrangements as a long-term goal of moving toward inter-regional free trade and investment with APEC. The differences between the breadth and depth of TPP and RCEP’s obligations under future free trade agreements are clear. Neither can be a template for the development of an Asia-Pacific free trade agreement, and the experience of both programs implies substantially the progress of the broader Asia-Pacific integration process. The most likely way to reach an APFTA is to mix a part of the TPP with the intra-Asia trade integration. Such an arrangement provides a good opportunity to deepen the bilateral trade relations between China and the United States in the context of carrying out free trade agreements in the Asia Pacific region.