As Vice President Pence highlights competition in U.S. policy toward China, others directing this bilateral relationship should be mindful of the utility of cooperation.

It is time to challenge long-held assumptions about the limited nature of Russia and China’s relationship. What we are witnessing is deepening and substantive cooperation, even if it lacks the hallmarks of a traditional treaty alliance.

Pence’s speech only made the U.S. look bad.

Vice President Mike Pence’s speech at the Hudson Institute signaled a far tougher American line on China. It is worth considering the Trump administration’s motivations for taking such an adversarial public stance now.

It is important to notice who started this trade war. We never want to have a trade war.

Friction is inevitable for two powers both at the nascent stage of a new era; after all, this era is unprecedented in history.

The Trump administration’s Indo-Pacific Strategy faces significant obstacles.

The relationship is too important to carry on like this.

Foreign Ministry responds to Pence's accusations on China.

A messy divorce of the fusion between the Chinese and American economies – the end of Chimerica – looms. This raises the specter of the first “hegemonic showdown” between the United States and China.