The United States' Relationship With China Right Now

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The U.S.-China relationship is "a really testy one," says Peter Bergen. Both sides are going around the world trying to thwart and undercut each other's initiatives, he adds. China doesn't see a future in which the Chinese Communist Party remains secure under US domination, Bergen says.

There’s rare bipartisan consensus in Washington: China is a threat to be countered. Cornell professor Jessica Chen Weiss says the American approach could lock both countries into an escalatory spiral.

This episode was produced by Victoria Chamberlin, edited by Matt Collette, fact-checked by Laura Bullard, engineered by Paul Robert Mounsey and Patrick Boyd, and hosted by Noel King.

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