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Engagement Revisited: Progress Made and Lessons Learned from the U.S.-China Strategic and Economic Dialogue | Tiffany Barron, Rorry Daniels, Dan Jasper, Susan Thornton

Published: Sept. 28, 2021, 6:53 p.m.

U.S.-China relations are arguably at their worst point since diplomatic recognition in 1979, and may be getting worse. In this environment, American researchers organized by the\xa0National Committee on American Foreign Policy\xa0and the American Friends Service Committee undertook a systematic audit of the U.S.-China Strategic & Economic Dialogue (S&ED) to see what benefits were expected from bilateral diplomacy in the past and whether those benefits were realized.

The\xa0report\xa0that emerged reveals that the United States benefited significantly from the S&ED process. Major areas of progress include stabilizing the international financial system after the global financial crisis, working through regulatory and technical issues culminating in the Paris Agreement, and jointly responding to the Ebola crisis in West Africa.

On\xa0September 13, 2021\xa0the National Committee on American Foreign Policy and the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations hosted a virtual program where\xa0Tiffany Barron,\xa0Rorry Daniels,\xa0Dan Jasper, and\xa0Susan Thornton\xa0discussed\xa0the successes and challenges of the S&ED process.