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Power Problems • September 20, 2022 

# How to Avoid a Zero-Sum U.S.-China Relationship 

The increasingly competitive U.S.-China relationship is subject to various perverse incentives and negative feedback loops. Jessica Chen Weiss, Cornell University Professor for China and Asia-Pacific Studies, discusses China’s rise and how to avoid a zero-sum and conflict-prone great power relationship.

**Show Notes:**

- [Jessica Chen Weiss bio](http://www.jessicachenweiss.com/)
- Jessica Chen Weiss, “[The China Trap: U.S. Foreign Policy and the Perilous Logic of Zero-Sum Competition](https://www.foreignaffairs.com/china/china-trap-us-foreign-policy-zero-sum-competition),” *Foreign Affairs* 101, no. 5 (September/​October 2022).
- Thomas Pepinsky and Jessica Chen Weiss, “[The Clash of Systems? Washington Should Avoid Ideological Competition with Beijing](https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/united-states/2021-06-11/clash-systems),” *Foreign Affairs*, June 11, 2021.
- Alistair Iain Johnston, “[China in a World of Orders: Rethinking Compliance and Challenge in Beijing’s International Relations](https://direct.mit.edu/isec/article-abstract/44/2/9/12242/China-in-a-World-of-Orders-Rethinking-Compliance?redirectedFrom=fulltext),” *International Security* 44, no. 2 (Fall 2019): pp. 9–60.

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Professor for China and Asia-Pacific Studies, Cornell University

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