China-U.S. Relations in a New Era

How will politics and the economy affect the commercial relationship between China and the United States? What lessons can we learn from decades of productive engagement as well as from the current challenges? Mitch Presnick, who founded two companies in China and who is a visiting fellow at Harvard’s Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, discusses the factors that can lead to a cooperative, as opposed to adversarial, future.

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