Chinese companies and choke off Chinese travel and student visas to the United States have further undermined U.S.-China economic and cultural exchange. This hostile confrontation has contributed to an overall shift toward more adversarial U.S. relations with China.
President Biden and several of his top advisers have criticized the U.S.-China trade war as ineffective and harmful, stating that they will instead promote a “worker-centered” trade policy. But it remains unclear precisely how this will translate to U.S. economic policy toward China.
This Qi webinar featured Rachel Esplin Odell, research fellow at the Quincy Institute; Anna Ashton, vice president of government affairs at the U.S.-China Business Council; and Jake Werner, research fellow at the Boston University Global Development Policy Center. Graham Webster, research scholar at DigiChina, moderated.
