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Phillip Saunders discusses a number of political, diplomatic, and security issues are likely to be sources of U.S.-China contention in the coming decade, such as Taiwan, Korea, and mutual concerns about strategic capabilities, and considers potential ways in which the United States and China can reduce differences,
increase strategic trust, and manage areas of strategic competition.

In July, 2008, the National Committee brought together 30 of the best minds on various aspects of China and several specialists in other areas for a synergistic, cross-cutting look at some of the major challenges facing China and the United States and what the best policies might be to enhance cooperation and ameliorate conflict over them. “China, the United States and the Emerging Global Agenda,” a two-day conference held at the Aspen Wye River Conference Centers in Queenstown, Maryland, took a hard-nosed look at the major dimensions of American relations with China over the next decade and focused on our long-term interests rather than the immediate problems that tend to dominate such discussions.

The conference centered around sessions on three major topics, each of which are of crucial importance to the two countries and to the overall relationship: economics and trade, security and politics, and climate change.