Joseph Nye, Harvard University professor, is known for coining the phrase “soft power,” which he has argued can be used in both competition and cooperation between China and the U.S. In this interview, James Chau speaks with Nye to unpack the overlapping interests between the two countries and what they each must do to achieve cooperation and managed competition.

Intense competition has become a hallmark of the China-U.S. dynamic. But experts says neither the prospect nor the outcome is guaranteed. Our Host James Chau speaks to Chen Dongxiao, President of the Shanghai Institutes for International Relations.

When the leaders of China and the United States finally met at the G20 last month, it signaled a restart in face-to-face dialogue. But what are the outcomes from their three hour interaction? Our Host James Chau speaks with Chen Dongxiao, President of the Shanghai Institutes for International Studies.

It’s imperative to look at history when considering the current state of the China-U.S. bilateral relationship, or even the state of the world. In this video, Joseph Nye of Harvard University sits down with James Chau to discuss how the past is impacting the present, and how it can give us a better understanding of how to approach the long-term global future.

In this interview, James Chau sits down with Jeffrey Sachs, international economist and University Professor at Columbia University, to discuss bilateral technology restrictions, the China-Russia-U.S. triangular relationship, and ways in which Chinese and Americans can learn from each other.

The social and economic challenges China is experiencing are not unique. In fact, they're quite similar to obstacles being faced by the rest of the world, including the U.S. But our history and cultural heritage play a huge role in how we react. In this video, economist and Columbia University professor Jeffrey Sachs unpacks China's response to these challenges, and reminds us that if we could remember that we’re all in this together, we could undoubtedly come up with better global solutions.

How the U.S., Russia, and China find ways to work together, even as they disagree over fundamental issues, has been a central challenge in recent months. Doug Bandow of the Cato Institute discusses the significance of these nations finding space to cooperate and ways in which to do so, for the good of both the trilateral relationship and the rest of the world.

In the 1970s, America's foreign policy was being shaped by three European immgrants, including Zbigniew Brzezinski who was a right hand man to Jimmy Carter. In this video, our Host James Chau speaks to Cheng Li of Brookings Institution, about what we can learn.