Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
- Follow Carnegie
- Search
- Global Resources
Global Centers
Languages
Building mutual trust between the United States and China will be a decades-long process that is dependent on good governance and each country's economic development.
Both the United States and China are coming out of political transitions to face endemic trade conflicts and domestic structural adjustments.
The Obama administration argues that the realignment of American military might and political focus is not meant to counter a more assertive China, but to refresh relationships with allies and to maintain regional stability.
Tensions have escalated in the South and East China Seas. As events progress, what was already a complex and complicated issue over minuscule territories has drawn big power attention.
China and the United States may seem to offer radically different versions of capitalism, but both economies face similar challenges of reducing inequality, improving regulation, and promoting innovation.
While some analysts have quickly hailed new economic data from China as confirmation that the Chinese economy has truly bottomed, such data may represent only temporary lulls.
Beijing should focus more on individual market reforms and worry less about internationalizing the yuan.
With the U.S. presidential election and the 18th Party Congress in China now complete, American and Chinese leaders can turn their attention to larger issues.
Russia and China are facing new challenges as they engage the new globalized marketplace. What can they learn from each other as they try to increase human capital and develop knowledge-based economies?
The United States and China must find ways to cooperate if the rebalance of American policy toward Asia is to succeed.