Abstract
China attaches great importance to maintaining constructive relations with major powers. This article deals with the background and characteristics of the relationship between China, the United States, Russia and Japan. These countries are the four major powers in the Asia‐Pacific region and indeed in the world. Their relationship contributes to the reshaping of the global configuration of power, especially international political and economic orders. Since the end of the Cold War, this quadrilateral relationship has been undergoing changes and readjustment. Although they compete and differ with each other on a number of issues, these four nations are trying to create co-operative economic and security mechanisms. To achieve this objective they need to adjust to the new era of political polarisation, economic globalisation and cultural integration. As we look into the new century, this relationship would follow the same patterns of friction, contradiction and conflict.
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