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

There is much speculation about China’s future, particularly about how it might leverage its economic growth to expand influence abroad and change the status quo of international politics, mainly in East Asia. No doubt as China increases its power, it could upgrade its military capacity. This combined economic and military might could help China acquire [...]

The January 19, 2011 White House summit between Presidents Obama and Hu Jintao was of considerable international significance. There is no more high-stakes relationship in the world today, or since the collapse of the Soviet Union. Moreover, the Sino-American relationship has just endured its worst year in more than two decades, experiencing frictions in virtually [...]