With a truce in sight, China needs to stay alert as the U.S. might seek to challenge it in other fields.

The U.S. should respect China’s right to develop and become prosperous, the Chinese government’s top diplomat says.

This goes beyond more than just trade.

The Trump administration wants to constrain China’s rise — even if America must pay a steep price for severing forty years of U.S.-China linkage.

Through the use of rhetorical narratives, the American “Free and Open Indo-Pacific” is intended to be an alternative to China’s Belt & Road Initiative, emboldening counterproductive geopolitical competition in the region.

Under President Obama, the US-China relationship was viewed as critical and treated with care. Now, under President Trump, China hawks dominate US foreign policy. How did we get there, and what will it mean for “the most important bilateral relationship of the 21st century”?

Despite their deeply intertwined economies, China and the U.S. remain fundamentally different societies in terms of politics and core values. The sooner the U.S. accepts this truth, the better China-U.S. relations will be.

The Trump administration has become increasingly hawkish, but confrontation with China goes far beyond trade friction, raising the specter that US-China relations could come to resemble Cold War era tensions.

Whatever claims China has made to a “Peaceful Rise,” it is clear that “peaceful” is ringing somewhat hollow. China now seeks to create a new set of global norms, starting with ejecting the US from Asia.

The US assumption that China is already very powerful is premature and its anxiety is unnecessary.