About the project

The APLN Asia Dialogue on China-US Relations examines the growing perception gap between China and the United States – the divergent understandings of a wide range of basic factual issues that lead to deepening mistrust and increasingly pessimistic interpretations of each other’s strategic intent. Bringing together experts from China, the United States, and the Asia-Pacific to debate this phenomenon, including by encouraging self-reflection on how policies and practices might have contributed to it, the project’s goal is to craft a series of practical proposals to help close the gap.

The Asia Dialogue on China-US Relations is aimed at devising pragmatic policy recommendations for decision-makers and policy communities across the Asia-Pacific, and Washington and Beijing in particular.

The project is supported by a generous grant from Carnegie Corporation of New York.

Publications

The Perception Gap and the China-US Relationship – Tong Zhao

US-Soviet Top-Down Trust-Building: Lessons for the US-China relationship – Yu Tiejun

Track 2 and Track 1.5 US-China Strategic Nuclear Dialogues: Lessons Learned and the Way Forward – David Santoro

Enduring Misperceptions: A Critical View of China-US ‘Decoupling’ – Rukmani Gupta

The Constructive Role of Scholarship in the China-US Relationship – Jian Junbo

Decoupling: a path of no return between China and the United States? – Zha Daojiong