Initiative for U.S.-China Dialogue on Global Issues

The U.S.-China Research Group on Managing Strategic Competition was a team of leading U.S. and Chinese experts that meet for dialogue around key academic and policy issues related to the roles of China and the United States in the emerging international order.

From 2017 to 2019, then-initiative managing director Dennis Wilder, Senior Fellow Evan Medeiros, and Wang Jisi of Peking University convened the U.S.-China Research Group on Managing Strategic Competition. The initiative sponsored three research workshops in Washington, DC, and Beijing focused on the evolving dynamics of U.S.-China relations. Topics included building strategic trust, the role of the Belt and Road Initiative for U.S.-China relations, and the future of U.S.-China relations. Following the workshops, several research group participants contributed essays to Cold Rivals: The New Era of U.S.-China Strategic Competition (Georgetown University Press, August 2023), edited by Evan Medeiros.