The U.S. has maintained a policy of engagement with the People’s Republic of China since Richard Nixon normalized relations with Mao Zedong in 1972. But how is ‘engagement’ actually understood in Washington and Beijing? And has engagement changed under the new Trump administration?
Orville Schell is Arthur Ross Director of the Center on U.S.-China Relations at Asia Society in New York.
The “Harvard on China” podcast is hosted by James Evans at Harvard’s Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies.