A Diplomatic Holding Pattern: The US China Relationship's Unchanged Trajectory The latest US China summit has yielded a new phase of "constructive stability," but beneath its euphemistic surface lies a fundamentally unchanged relationship.
As former US ambassador to China Max Baucus put it, the two nations remain locked in wary mutual distrust. This development is not surprising given the decades long trajectory of Sino American relations.
From the 1999 WTO accession talks to the present day, both sides have struggled to reconcile their vastly different systems and values.