There is no shortage of disagree- ments or frictions in US-China relations, but both President Obama and President Xi Jinping recently agreed that a "new model" was necessary for ties between the American and Chines...There is no shortage of disagree- ments or frictions in US-China relations, but both President Obama and President Xi Jinping recently agreed that a "new model" was necessary for ties between the American and Chinese people to pros- per in the 21st century. The many hours of talks between the two leaders in California at the so-called"Sunnyland Summit"notwithstanding, the substance of such a "new model"remains undefined. It is not the first time, of course, that both sides have sought a productive framework for the relationship between the world'stwo largest economies. In part the sugges- tion seems an answer to the fundamental question as to whether the US and China are converging or diverging.展开更多
文摘There is no shortage of disagree- ments or frictions in US-China relations, but both President Obama and President Xi Jinping recently agreed that a "new model" was necessary for ties between the American and Chinese people to pros- per in the 21st century. The many hours of talks between the two leaders in California at the so-called"Sunnyland Summit"notwithstanding, the substance of such a "new model"remains undefined. It is not the first time, of course, that both sides have sought a productive framework for the relationship between the world'stwo largest economies. In part the sugges- tion seems an answer to the fundamental question as to whether the US and China are converging or diverging.