Summary
In this report published by the Asia Society Policy Institute's Center for China Analysis, Evan S. Medeiros identifies substantial new dynamics at play in the United States and China that have had an increasingly negative impact on U.S.-China ties.
The New Domestic Politics of U.S.-China Relations
Author: Evan Medeiros
The U.S.-China relationship has come to largely define geopolitics in the twenty-first century, and the bilateral relationship is today often conceived primarily in terms of geopolitical tensions and great power jockeying on the global stage. However, there is more to U.S.-China strategic competition than the geopolitical level. In particular, the influence of domestic political dynamics in both countries is a widely underappreciated factor driving both U.S. and Chinese foreign policy decision-making, including vis-à-vis each other. What are these shifting domestic forces in both countries that are most influencing the relationship, in what ways, and to what effect?