2026-09-03
51 分钟I'm Dan Kurtz-Phelan, and this is The Foreign Affairs Interview.
China can succeed on its own metrics or not, that's sort of immaterial,
but what we need is a kind of shared understanding
of how the United States and China are going to cohabit this planet.
I don't think that coexistence is even very loaded a term.
I mean, we we already coexist right now, right?
The question is on in what forms and how dangerous is that coexistence going to be?
Are we going to kind of be on the verge of a new crisis, military or economic,
or are we going to be able to, you know, reduce that set of tensions
to a level where we can harness the benefits of our continued interactions?
There has been no shortage of dizzying shifts in American foreign policy
since Donald Trump returned to the White House last year.
But I'm not sure any of those shifts has been as surprising as the one on China.
In his first term, Trump helped create a hard-line consensus centered on fears of a growing threat.
Now, he seems much more interested in striking deals,
Many analysts of U.S.-China policy have reacted to this reversal with dismay,
but Jessica Chen Weiss sees it as an opportunity to forge a more sensible approach.
Weiss, a professor at Johns Hopkins SAIS and a former State Department official,
has warned of the dangers of zero-sum thinking about China
in a series of essays for Foreign Affairs in recent years.