In the first hundred days of his tenure in the White House, President Donald Trump has had to devote considerable attention to the United States’ single most consequential bilateral partner: China.
The issues currently on the U.S.-China agenda share several commonalities: they are top-tier issues that garner presidential attention in both the United States and China; they are contentious, in the U.S.-China context, to the point of raising the prospect of direct conflict (e.g., a hot war or a “trade war”) between the United States and China; and they represent enduring, and seemingly intractable, challenges. These issues also share another less obvious commonality: they are issues where the U.S.-China perceptual divide is as much a part of the problem as the actual interests or policies in question.
Key Issues Addressed:
．The U.S. rebalance to the Asia-Pacific
．The stability of the Korean peninsula, including specifically, the deployment of the THAAD system
．U.S. reconnaissance operations in the Asia-Pacific region
．Disputes in the East and South China Seas
．Cross-strait relations
．Cybersecurity
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