US move a provocation

China and the United States still have much in common and their economic interdependence still deepening

Chinese people feel particularly bewildered over the United States' motives behind its recent military drills with its Asian allies in Northeast Asia and its unrestrained interventions in China's territorial disputes with some Southeast Asian nations in the South China Sea.

The ups-and-downs of Sino-US relations over the past three decades have largely been driven by national interests, in which the two countries have endlessly changed their diplomatic approach towards one another according to their changed interests during different periods.