President Trump’s interest in Greenland is sensible considering the strategic and economic importance of the Arctic — a region that also interests China, Russia, and other great powers, but the United States could be doing more to strengthen its ties to Denmark and its territory.

Useful lessons for overcoming today’s disputes can be drawn from the history of China-U.S. relations, which moved toward normalization during the 1970s.

Presidential hopefuls agree that the U.S. needs to engage in deep negotiations with China.

It’s only a matter of time before the United States loses its predominant position as the controller of international rhetoric and is supplanted by China as allies and partners lose confidence.

The G7 Summit, which just concluded at the French seaside resort of Biarritz, showed that Europe and the United States diverge with and even increasingly confront each other on trade issues. Considering its fading influence, the continued value of the G7 has been thrown into doubt, even by European academia.

US President Donald Trump’s behavior at the recent G7 meeting in Biarritz was criticized as careless and disruptive by many observers. Others argued that the press and pundits pay too much attention to Trump’s personal antics, tweets, and political games. In the long run, they argue, historians will consider them mere peccadilloes. The larger question is whether the Trump presidency proves to be a major turning point in American foreign policy, or a minor historical blip.

The future of China-U.S. relations turns on their ability to coexist within the same international system. Failure to do so could lead to confrontation and possible dismemberment of the international regime.

In a recently released Real Vision Finance interview, Former White House Chief Strategist Steve Bannon makes a populist argument against China in which he blames both self-serving US elites and China’s aggressive geopolitical strategy for America’s ‘managed decline.’ To reestablish unmatched US hegemony, Bannon argues for a hawkish and unilateral US foreign policy and economic nationalism.

It is in Greece’s national interest to pursue continuity in its relations with China and even act as a strategic interpreter between Washington and Beijing, but this will demand creative strategic acuity as the United States will soon rank the world into friends and enemies.

US Democratic candidates have thus far remained tightlipped about their views on China. Instead, candidates should give China more weight in their 2020 campaigns and overall foreign policy plans.