Cui Tiankai, at film screening is hopeful about Sino-US relations
The strained China-US relations need what Abraham Lincoln referred to as the touch “by the better angels of our nature”, and such “better angels” are still there, Beijing’s top envoy to Washington Cui Tiankai said Tuesday evening at the screening of a documentary film.
“Over the past year we have heard enough of trade war threats, assertions about More…
The meeting between US President Donald Trump and President Xi Jinping on Dec 1 at the G20 summit created a brief reprieve for the two countries to explore whether they can bridge the divide on a range of thorny issues.
The United States and China are at an inflection point where the stakes could not be higher: On one trajectory More…
William Mundell says the US should delegate its complaints about China’s flaunting of WTO rules to a multilateral organisation while China could direct some of its Belt and Road Initiative funding towards US infrastructure.
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by William A. Mundell. 
During a recent interview for our forthcoming documentary on the U.S.-China relationship, Henry Kissinger, the 56th Secretary of State, said: “If we [the United States and China] were to clash, it would be a disaster for the whole world. So the relationship is an exploration of our necessities. And it is an effort to make the Better Angels of our nature dominate amidst a maelstrom of events.” More…
“When important things are addressed first, secondary issues will not be difficult to settle”–or so goes the Chinese proverb. The laundry list of issues afflicting the U.S.-China relationship is long and arduous, but none is more fundamental than public opinion and the constraints it imposes on the ability of both sides to move the relationship forward. More…
“I use film when nothing else works.” That is the mantra of William Mundell, the producer of “Better Angels,” a 90-minute documentary film that deals with the Sino-US relationship. When it comes to an international issue as thorny as US-China bilateral relations, a film might just be what is needed to improve the association between the two countries. More…
