“Since the early 2010s, the relationship between Beijing and Washington has steadily shifted from cautious engagement to tense rivalry,” write David Lampton and Wang Jisi in the forthcoming issue of Foreign Affairs. If China and the United States continue down this path, they could lock themselves—and the rest of the world—“into a condition of managed hostility, diminished prosperity, and chronic insecurity.”
“The two of us have seen this before,” Lampton and Wang warn. “As veteran scholars in the United States and China, we have lived through nearly six decades of fluctuation in the bilateral relationship, and we understand the shadow of confrontation between our two countries.” Now, they argue, Washington and Beijing need “a new normalization of relations that pulls each side back from the brink.”
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