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Key elements in China’s Communist Party, military, and business circles have steered China’s North Korea policy toward achieving stability and strengthening ties to Pyongyang, complicating U.S. efforts to enlist China’s help at reining in North Korean provocations.
While China continues to call for US respect of its core interests as a means toward greater cooperation on the Korean Peninsula and global climate change, the United States prefers an immediate focus on cooperating on those common concerns. A leading Chinese scholar examines how these differences can be bridged to build a genuine partnership.
Recent turbulence in U.S.-Chinese relations stems from China’s umbrage at what it perceives to be the United States’ attempts to harm China’s core interests. Professor Thomas Christensen presents a distinct perspective on U.S.-China relations that emphasizes the dangers in interacting in an environment of mistrust and polarization.
Latest from USIP on China
- January 20, 2012 | Publication
February marks the 40th anniversary of President Richard Nixon’s historic visit to China. The trip was also a milestone in the history of journalism. On January 17, USIP and the State Department’s East Asian and Pacific Affairs Bureau hosted a screening of the documentary film Assignment: China.
- January 17, 2012 | Event
The U.S.-China Institute at the University of Southern California has produced a new documentary film, Assignment: China – The Week that Changed the World. Written and narrated by Mike Chinoy, formerly CNN’s senior Asia correspondent and Beijing bureau chief, the film uses previously unreleased footage and interviews with the reporters and officials who accompanied President Richard Nixon to tell the behind-the-scenes story of the media coverage of the trip that changed the course of U.S.-China relations. The United States Institute of Peace and the State Department’s East Asian and Pacific Affairs Bureau hosted a screening of Assignment: China, followed by a conversation featuring some of those who traveled to China with Nixon.
- December 15, 2011 | Event
On December 15th, USIP hosted a panel of current and former officials from the U.S., Japan and South Korea that examined the post-2012 political, economic and security landscape in Northeast Asia following leadership changes – both democratically facilitated and planned. Against this background, the panel assessed challenges and opportunities for the U.S., Japan and South Korea.
- December 9, 2011 | News Releases
This year marks the 40th anniversary of Henry Kissinger’s secret trip to China. This unique diplomatic initiative began the process of normalizing America’s relations with the People’s Republic of China (PRC). On November 15, Solomon delivered this year’s Holdridge Memorial Lecture in an event at the Institute.
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The U.S.-China Project on Crisis Avoidance & Cooperation (PCAC) is a Track 1.5 project run by the Center for Conflict Analysis and Prevention at the U.S. Institute of Peace. Together with its Chinese partners the Institute brings together U.S. and Chinese officials for closed discussions on a host of security, political, economic, financial and environmental issues. PCAC’s key objectives are:
- To foster deeper mutual understanding of traditional and nontraditional security issues that could have significant unintended consequences for U.S.-China relations, and
- To exchange views on how to address these pressing policy issues. By facilitating joint "policy R&D" analytical work on these issues, the Institute seeks to increase mutual understanding between U.S. and Chinese participants and inform the development of policies.
John S. Park, senior research associate in the Center for Conflict Analysis and Prevention, is co-director of PCAC.
Highlights
Watch, listen and learn as USIP experts and events address issues regarding China:
- The Rise of China
USIP President Richard Solomon spoke to Fox News national security expert KT McFarland about the rise of China. - Assignment: China
News Feature by Thomas Omestad - Assignment: China
Event Audio | January 17, 2012 - USIP President Examines U.S.-China Relations
USIP President Richard Solomon delivered the 2011 Holdridge Memorial Lecture, surveying the early challenges of building a constructive relationship with China and highlights the challenges of managing the relationship in contemporary circumstances. - Former National Security Adviser Kissinger on U.S. Exceptionalism
News Feature by Thomas Omestad
From USIP's Experts
The Implications of China's Military and Civil Space Programs
May 2011 | USIP expert Bruce MacDonald testified on May 11, 2011 before the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission on the implications of China's military and civil space programs.
U.S.-China Relations
April 2011 | USIP's John Park testified before the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission about the evolving roles of 'core interests' and 'mutual interests' in U.S.-China relations.
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