Confrontation Is Out of the Question

Wang Huiyao: You talked about the defi-cit of trust between China and the U.S. and how we can once again build this up. Today, we are several months into President Joe Biden's administration; what more can be done? John Thornton: I am skeptical about the grand sweeping statements about in-flection points or decoupling or Cold War analogies. For me, these statements are mostly emotional, provocative, unhelpful and wrong.