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January 14, 2011 | View Online

Conduct Befitting a Great Power

Responsibility and Sovereignty in U.S.-China Relations

By Nina Hachigian
In a new report, Nina Hachigian offers recommendations to help build a better 21st century relationship of global responsibility between the United States and China. In order to meet the goals of maximizing the upside of the bilateral relationship for the United States, increasing Chinese responsibility, and maintaining U.S. leverage and leadership, the Obama administration should take steps that include:

• Facilitating job-creating Chinese direct investment in the United States
• Maintaining U.S. leverage in Asia by continuing to deepen our ties with partners and allies in the region
• Acting like a 21st century superpower by engaging with and strengthening the international architecture of rules, norms, and institutions
• Not losing the current consensus in the U.S. Congress, media, and public that favors a pragmatic U.S.-China policy

Read and download the full report here.

Rising to the Challenge

A Progressive U.S. Approach to China’s Innovation and Competitiveness Policies

By Kate Gordon , Susan Lyon, Ed Paisley, Sean Pool
Read and download the report here.
This report examines the challenges posed to current and future innovation-led economic growth in the United States by China’s drive to boost innovation at home by any means available. As we will demonstrate, some of these challenges cut to the core of our nation’s own global economic and scientific strengths—even though some of China’s innovation policies and programs are plagued by inherent liabilities that are built into the country’s approach to innovation.