第一波“中国威胁论”泛滥于1992-1993年间。美国费城外交政策研 究所亚洲项目主任芒罗1992年秋发表了《正在觉醒的巨龙:亚洲真正的威 胁来自中国》,风靡太平洋东岸。其逻辑是:“中国经济强大-政治崛起- 军事扩张”。美国学者们从意识形态、社会制度乃至文明角度展开论证,经 媒体推波助澜,汹涌成潮。 The first wave of “China threat theory” flooded in 1992-1993. Munroe, director of Asian programs at the Institute of Foreign Policy Studies of Philadelphia, USA, presented “The Awakening Dragon: The True Threat of Asia from China” in the autumn of 1992 and swept the Pacific east coast. Its logic is: “China’s economic power - political rise - military expansion.” American scholars from the perspective of ideology, social system and even civilized argument, fueled by the media, surges.