KEY TO EXERCISES
Section A: Text Comprehension
I. Reference Answers to Pre-reading Questions:
1.Jim Carter [Para 2]
2.Brzezinski attracted worldwide attention by elaborating his G-2 idea with an article in the
Financial Times entitled "The Group of Two that could change the world".[Para 7]
3.He thinks that Barack Obama is a conciliator at heart. [Para 16]
4.For the idea of G-2 to work, the US has to adjust fundamentally foreign policy it has followed
since the end of Word War II, away from neo-imperialism toward Wilsonian/FDR liberalism, and give up its aim of peaceful evolution of Chinese society towards market capitalism. A G-2 would have to be a leading force in building a new world order of social justice and economic equity. [Para 27]
5.Mao's vision of US-China relations transcends fleeting geopolitical tactics of balance of
power, towards a long-range peaceful coexistence of two of the world's largest nations. [Para 30]
Section B: Exercises
I. Detailed Examination
Identify whether each of the following statements is true (T) or false (F) according to your understanding of the text details.
1. F
2. T
3. T
4. F
5. F
6. T
7. F
8. T
9. T 10. T
II. Business T erms
1.Give the Chinese equivalents of the following business terms and expressions which
would be found in the given paragraphs of the text.
1). 外交关系
2). 别具风格地，时髦地
3). （外交）关系的正常化
4). 生机勃勃的国内市场
5). 外贸结算
6). 和谐世界7). 联合国维和部队
8). 维持全球主导地位
9). 放任自由的市场经济
10). 专属经济区
11). 韬光养晦
12). 和谐共生的伙伴
2.Give the English Equivalents of the following Business terms and expressions which
would be found in the given paragraphs of the text.
1). top executives
2). China's core interests
3). sovereign credit
4). export sector
5). China's 'peaceful rising' 6). decision-maker
7). in-depth discussion
8). unipolar world order
9). win-win symbiosis
10). peaceful evolution
11). run counter to 12). mutual benefit
III. Text Comprehension
Answer the following questions according to the text.
1.Because there was no official counterpart observation in the US. [Para 3]
2.Brzezinski thinks China could help the US find solutions to the problems like the global
financial crisis, the challenges of climate change, North Korea and Iran nuclear ambitions, India and Pakistan tension and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. [Para 6]
3.According to Brzezinski, it precipitated almost from the start security co-operation that has
been of genuine benefit both to the US and China. The effect was to change the Cold War's global chessboard - to the disadvantage of the Soviet Union. Indirectly, the normalization facilitated Chairman Deng Xiaoping's decision to undertake a comprehensive economic reform. China's growth would have been much harder without the expansion in US-Chinese trade and financial relations that followed normalization." [Para 8]
4.It describes the relationship as one of "complex interdependence", in which both sides
evaluate each other in pragmatic and moderate terms and in which "the two sides can compete and consult within existing international rules". Yet the reality of US-China relations is one of unending US provocation and hostility on a compliant China. [Para 9]
5.China should adopt a full employment objective and an income policy financed by sovereign
credit in order to develop a vibrant domestic market that would absorb the sharp shrinkage of its export sector resulting from the global financial crisis. The way for China to use sovereign credit to finance domestic economic development is to free China from dollar hegemony by demanding settlement of its export trade to be denominated in yuan. [Para 10]
6.According to Brzezinski, if both sides at all times keep in mind the centrality of their
interdependence, they will be able to cope with other contentious issues.
7.They are mainly about listing Brzezinski’s ideas on forming G2. Specifically, Para 11 is about
China’s revisionist power and “the US-China’s common perspectives” which are helpful in forming G2; Para 12 analyses the Chinese own view or stand toward the idea of revisionist power. Para 13-16 are about his views on the fields in which the US and China can cooperate.
national interests globally would be better served by a strategy of making friends with
China by sharing power globally because eventually the US will need the support of the world's most populous country to preserve and shore up its own global dominance. By contrast, conflicts with China will drain US capacity to maintain its global dominance. [Para 18]
9.Brzezinski, the grand master of geopolitical chess, plots his strategy several moves ahead of
the game. Geopolitical pluralism must first be promoted to defuse challenges to US superpower, followed by encouraging compatible key partners to cooperate under US leadership, and finally the pragmatic sharing of global geopolitical responsibility can be rewarded with a sharing of power. The twin poles of this strategy are a united Europe in the West and strong China in the East; with the problematic central regions stabilized within a new balance of power. [Para 20]
10.The US, in view of the self-inflicted damage to its freewheeling market economy that can be
expected to leave the country in a protracted depression, will need a trade partner with high growth potential to absorb its overcapacity. China emerges in the 21st century as the ideal
