“Neither strategic trust nor friendship is sufficient for stability, and despite the seemingly positive top-level sentiment, cooperation between the US and China is now more challenging and precarious than ever. Both Trump and Xi have brutally shaken up their respective political systems and centralized power in their hands, mangling the institutions, communication channels, and bureaucracies essential to avoiding or de-escalating crises.”
Andrew Scobell (Mercator Institute for China Studies & Georgetown University) and Andrea Ghiselli (T.wai & University of Exeter) are the authors of the article “U.S.-China Relations Are More Volatile Than Ever” for Foreign Policy.
Research Fellow
Andrea Ghiselli is a non-resident Research Fellow at T.wai, and serves as the Head of Research of the ChinaMed Project. He is also a Lecturer in International Politics at the University of Exeter.
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