Attending his first multilateral summit since becoming president in March, Xi Jinping held a series of important multilateral and bilateral meetings at the G20. Without attracting much attention, Chinese foreign policy has been on a roll since last month’s summit.

With the crisis in Syria at the forefront of the 68th Session of the UN General Assembly, Tom Plate argues that China’s role in Turtle Bay will be far less predictable than the past.

Tao Wenzhao provides a brief review of the events that have taken place since the beginning of this year, showing that the two countries have reached and started the process of building a new model of major-country relations.

While US attention on China can often become unfocused due to the “crisis du jour”, Joan Johnson-Freese notes the importance of maintaining a consistent and balanced policy towards China.

The China-US relationship is the most critical in today’s world. With the continued focus on the US pivot to Asia, many question the stability of the relationship as well as the goals of the two parties. While the US and China have differences, they should not view each other as threats, but rather seek to promote and develop their relationship.

China's Foreign Minister Wang Yi made a speech at the Brookings Institution on 20 September 2013, sharing his thoughts on the way toward a new model of major-country relations between China and the United States.

As Mexico looks to broaden its global relationships away from the United States as a means to build its global profile; one of the top foreign policy initiatives for Mexico’s new government has been to diversify its political and economic relationships, with a focus on China.

Increased military exchanges and cooperation between China and the US can be regarded as a step towards building a new type of Sino-US military relationship, writes Wu Zurong.

To date, the initial suggestions of dialogues on a new type of major-power relations from both China and the US have predictably focused more on what each side wants the other to do rather than on what both sides must do. This essay by David M. Lampton aims to move the discussion forward by specifying the economic and security domains in which cooperation needs to be initiated or enhanced and by making specific policy proposals.

As the United States and China have been working to build a new type of great power relationship, North Korean policy has often been a point of debate. Bonnie Glaser outlines the importance of Pyongyang to the strengthening of Sino-US relations.