PODCAST · society

China 411

by Zheng Huang and Ken Wilcox

Purpose:The United States and China are the largest and second largest economies in the world. President Obama calls the relationship the most important bilateral relationship of the 21st century. Yet the relationship is fraught with mistrust and miscalculation, with the potential for catastrophic conflict. Many scholars have written about the complex reasons behind the agreements and disagreements by taking a particular narrative. What they missed is that, on every single issue of importance, there are four underlying perspectives: how Americans view themselves, how Chinese view Americans, how Chinese view themselves, and how Americans view Chinese. Without understanding the four often competing and contradictory perspectives, and the historical and practical reasons giving rise to them, one cannot truly appreciate the vast potential and danger resident in the defining bilateral relationship of our age. Description:China 411 is a PodCast / YouTube series that explores the differin