ABSTRACT

In the early 1980s, China made adjustments to its own foreign policies featured with "neither building alliance nor establishing strategic relationship with any power or bloc of powers" and "never judging political relationship by ideology". This is the most important adjustment in China's foreign policy since the foundation of New China. Further subjective cognition would make the Chinese government subjectively sense the need to adjust its foreign policies. Further subjective cognition refers to intensified awareness of the diplomatic fighting form of setting up alliance or establishing strategic relation against the third party. The relations between the Soviet Union and West Germany tended to alleviation. In the early 1970s, the Soviet Union and the United States reached a series of strategic agreements for arms limitation. The key link of the One Line strategy was to establish a strategic relationship in the western world led by the United States against the Soviet Union.