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Bilateral security relations between the United States and China can be improved through increasing communication and enhancing trust, particularly in areas of greater tension like the South China Sea.

The United States and China don’t agree on every issue. But in the past, the two countries have found ways to deal with their disagreements without obstructing progress in areas of common interest.

China and the United States need a rich, intensive, strategic conversation to reach a better understanding of how they can cooperate in areas of common interest and manage successfully the differences that inevitably arise in the relations between major states.

The United States and China can build a new type of great power relations by making cooperation on global challenges the dominant element.

The Carnegie Endowment hosted a special taping of the Charlie Rose Show, on the situation twenty years after the end of the Soviet Union.

Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs Stephen J. Hadley discussed the Bush administration's efforts to promote economic growth and disease prevention in Africa and commented on the president's upcoming travels to Africa and his Smart Development Policy.