CHINA US Focus - Perspectives shaping the world's most important bilateral relationship

The Sino-US relationship is multifaceted, involving both competition and cooperation. Given the belief that a win-win result will be achieved only through cooperation, it is sensible to cling to the latter as a policy choice.   The importance of cooperation has always been a part of China’s traditional culture. Several celebrated dictums and idioms pronounce [...]

Both China and the United States stand as one of the leading world powers, and shoulder a historic responsibility for the development of the human society and the progress of world civilization. As a matter of fact, China and the United States have already started to explore the type of relationship to be developed between them.

Paraphrasing what existentialist philosopher Albert Camus said about suicide, most of the serious problems of contemporary world affairs are questions about interdependence. By now the realities of globalization are familiar to people throughout the world who are no longer surprised by the links and networks that connect them. Yet governments have struggled to come to [...]

  I am greatly honored to be invited to speak on this auspicious occasion of the inaugural of the Asia Global Dialogue hosted by the Fung Global Institute. My discussion today is entitled "China-US relations in an emerging East Asia".   To talk about this topic, we need to go back into history. What was [...]

  When I visited China last month as part of a bipartisan delegation of former Members of the House of Representatives, it quickly became apparent that finding common ground between the U.S. and China is among the key strategic imperatives that will have an important influence on the future of America, China and the world. [...]

The fourth round of the Strategic and Economic Dialogue (S&ED) has successfully concluded with 67 key points. These agreements cover a wide range of issues, bilateral, regional and global, which eloquently shows that China and the United States share overlapping interests and responsibilities in meeting regional and global challenges. Some of the agreements have enriched [...]