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Craig Kafura joins Chicago Tonight to discuss Speaker Pelosi's Taiwan trip and whether or not it complicates the relationship between the US and China.

"The 2021 Chicago Council Survey finds that a narrow majority of Americans support some sort of boycott of this year’s Beijing Olympics,” Craig Kafura tells WTTW.

Paul Heer discusses Xi Jinping's "wolf warrior diplomacy."

Paul Heer discusses US-China relations.

"It is rarely acknowledged or even considered that Beijing actually shares much of Washington’s vision for the Indo-Pacific," argues Paul Heer in the National Interest.

Paul Heer discusses how recent recommendations on how to handle Beijing could be a recipe for trouble.

Western outreach to the Global South should not reject China, but rather focus on the rules of the liberal, capitalist system that the US and China thrive in.

Actions by other players—including China’s neighbors and the United States—are key drivers of Beijing’s perception of the international environment and responses to it, Paul Heer explains.

“If Washington is prepared to acknowledge that it can coexist with China, the strategic rivalry could be managed peacefully,” writes Paul Heer in the National Interest.

The biggest obstacle to American understanding of China appears to be Washington’s seeming determination to misunderstand it, Paul Heer argues.

"A China beginning to lose the underpinnings of its new-found international influence could prove even more dangerous," John Austin writes.

“Both sides continue to pursue policies that appear aimed more at competition and confrontation,” writes Paul Heer in the National Interest.

"The only viable exit ramp is substantive diplomacy aimed at deescalation, mutual understanding, and incremental attention to each other’s core concerns," Paul Heer writes.

Given the Biden administration’s mantra that the US-China relationship “will be competitive where it should be, collaborative where it can be, and adversarial where it must be,” Doshi’s discussion of the prospects for bilateral cooperation

The Secretary of State’s approach to Beijing risks confirming its suspicions about U.S. subversion while simultaneously alienating the very Chinese people that he aspires to "engage and empower."

Despite Washington and Beijing’s apparent satisfaction with the meeting, the tensions at the heart of the relationship show no signs of abating, Paul Heer writes.

Washington and Beijing see themselves locked in a zero-sum competition doubling as an existential ideological struggle, Paul Heer writes.

"If Taiwan […] is part of an international struggle against the PRC, how is that not a de facto ‘one China, one Taiwan’ policy?” writes Paul Heer in National Interest.

By tying itself to China, Germany risks making its mistakes with Russia all over again, argues Senior Nonresident Fellow John Austin.

Paul Heer argues that US engagement with China has not failed - it just has not succeeded yet, and is still worth trying.

The Trump administration helped fuel the worst downward spiral in US-China relations since diplomatic normalization more than forty years ago.

"Bipartisan consensus (on the scope of the threat) needs to be reconsidered because the wrong diagnosis could yield the wrong, or even dangerous, prescriptions," Paul Heer writes.

The incident reflects the emerging adversarial pathology of US-China relations, which is increasingly obstructing any efforts at mutual understanding, Paul Heer writes.

"Foreign audiences should read [China's] resolution as a benchmark manifesto in the Party’s quest for China’s global power and legitimacy," writes Paul Heer in National Interest.

Nonresident Senior Fellow Paul Heer analyzes former Australian prime minister Kevin Rudd’s take on US-China relations in the National Interest.

"It’s not too late for China and the United States to achieve some level of mutual understanding and common purpose," Paul Heer writes.

Is conflict inevitable between the two superpowers? Nonresident Senior Fellow Paul Heer joins Jacob Heilbrunn and Elbridge A. Colby to discuss.

China’s balloon was not a “real strategic threat,” says Bruce Jentleson. “Our satellites overfly China all the time and theirs overfly us.”