Brookings
Although both Beijing and Washington consider the U.S.-China
relationship to be the most important in the world, distrust of each
other’s long term intentions ("strategic distrust") has grown to a
dangerous degree.
The coauthors of this path-breaking study—one of America's leading China
specialists and one of China's leading America specialists—lay out both
the underlying concerns each leadership harbors about the other side
and the reasons for those concerns. Each coauthor has written the
narrative of his government’s views without any changes made by the
other coauthor. Their purpose is to enable both leaderships to better
fathom how the other thinks. The coauthors have together written the
follow-on analysis and recommendations designed to improve the potential
for a long-term normal major power U.S.-China relationship, rather than
the adversarial relationship that might otherwise develop.
