Columbia International Affairs Online: Policy Briefs

CIAO DATE: 02/2009

Avoiding Mutual Misunderstanding: Sino-U.S. Relations and the New Administration

Tianjian Shi, Meredith Wen

January 2009

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

Abstract

After the election of Barack Obama as president, Carnegie's Beijing Office assembled a group of leading scholars of international relations to discuss their expectations of the new administration. This policy brief conveys their opinions on various aspects of Sino-American relations and on America foreign policy in general.