A peaceful future for China and the United States will depend on their ability to engage in benign competition. Can they find ways to compete while maintaining cooperation, or will they move toward decoupling and open hostility? The next chapter is yet to be written.

China's top diplomat in Washington poses three fundamental questions for the United States as it faces China's rise.

President Donald Trump’s authorization of a drone strike that assassinated Iranian General Qassem Suleimani is the icing on the cake for his record of erratic and unpredictable foreign policy. More importantly, it has opened the door for China and Russia to gain military, economic, and diplomatic influence in the Middle East.

The most significant achievement of President Xi Jinping’s recent visit to Myanmar was the progress made on the China-Myanmar Economic Corridor project. It will enhance bilateral ties, both economically and socially.

International politics in this century won’t be a simple story of U.S. decline and China’s rise to become a new global hegemon. That describes the history of past centuries, but it’s an obsolete concept today.

The recent tense, dangerous exchanges between the United States and Iran have revealed a great deal about US President Donald Trump’s management of his foreign policy. The main conclusion is that he doesn’t have one.

Beneath the surface of improving political ties lie persistent concerns over Chinese strategic investments in the Philippines.

Negativity about China-U.S. relations are only part of a bigger picture. Widespread as they are, the downbeat commentaries do not capture the whole picture. Many factors need to be taken into account to make an accurate analysis.

The American president may have some method in his madness, as seen in the way he approaches matters regarding Moscow. While acts impulsively and in diametric opposition to his predecessor, his motives can be deciphered.

A rising China has changed the bilateral balance, but neither China nor the United States has sufficient experience or approaches for dealing with the other. Competition could easily lead to confrontation.