Valerie Ma
Georgetown University
The “Sportsmanship” Approach to U.S.-China Relations
Part of our work on: U.S.-China Student Challenge
Like a player’s expectation of shared conditions, the team proposes the “Sportsmanship Approach” where the United States and China should agree-to-disagree on first principles. They argue that such a framework will enable both sides to solidify communication, cooperate on shared interests, and align expectations on areas where interests diverge.
People
John Paul Rugaba
Zhengzhou University
Steven Vo
Georgetown University
Huiling Zhou
Communication University of China
Publications
The Sportsmanship Approach to U.S.-China Relations: Agreeing to Disagree on First Principles
March 1, 2021
This paper, written by Valerie Ma, John Paul Rugaba, Stephen Vo, and Huiling Zhou, is one of the two winning proposals from the 2020-2021 U.S.-China Student Challenge, where students from the United States and China were tasked with identifying creative ways to reset the U.S.-China relationship at a…
Videos
U.S.-China Student Challenge: The Sportsmanship Approach to U.S.-China Relations (Video)
March 9, 2021
Duration: 4 minutes