A prominent Chinese academic argues the conditions are right for a US–China “grand bargain”. But recent events in Venezuela and the Middle East raise hard questions about what kind of America China is dealing with.

Professor Wu Xinbo, a prominent Chinese academic who regularly comments on Sino-American relations recently published an instructive article in the US journal Foreign Affairs entitled, _The Case For a Grand Bargain Between America and China._

Professor Wu is Dean of International Studies and Director of the Center for American Studies at Fudan University in Shanghai.  The introduction of his piece argues that “the conditions are [currently] in place for a grand bargain between China and the United........

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