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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
- April 18, 2013 | Publication
John Park, a senior Asia adviser at USIP, says China is exploring how to modify its North Korea policy because of concern that the recent explosive rhetoric and potential South Korean and/or U.S. responses to North Korean actions could lead to a dangerous region-wide escalation.
- February 12, 2013 | Publication
USIP’s Mike Lekson and Bruce MacDonald, both former U.S. arms control officials give their take on the significance of North Korea’s latest move.
- January 30, 2013 | Publication
A new strategic landscape is emerging in the Middle East as authoritarian states such as Russia and China attempt to use the upheaval of the Arab Spring to increase their regional influence and strengthen their efforts to pose a counterweight to U.S. power and Western norms on democracy and human rights, USIP’s Daniel Brumberg and Steven Heydemann said at a public forum on January 29.
- January 25, 2013 | Publication
USIP held the second in a new series of meetings with Asia-Pacific naval attaches in Washington on January 25, providing a briefing on U.S. policy toward China. The broader initiative—Naval Attache Roundtable Meetings—aims to deepen exchanges on a region of vital strategic and economic importance toward which the U.S. government is “rebalancing” its foreign policy.
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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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