The US-China Relationship

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Jessica Chen Weiss is a professor at Cornell. She teaches and researches US-China relations and policy. Last year, Jessica took a sabbatical from Cornell and became a senior advisor to the State Department's policy planning staff where she worked on China policy. Her view of the US-China relationship that is slightly different from what we have been hearing on Capitol Hill.

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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