Strategic Dialogue Advances Partnership, with a Limit

S&ED is a means to help stabilize and improve partnership. However, when each’s strategic interests differ or even collide, a dialogue will not be able to resolve the problem. The best the dialogue could do is to assure that each side will take sensible decisions, ideally through mutual concession. This is what the S&ED of the Obama era has been about.

Shen Dingli Associate Dean, Fudan University via CHINA US Focus http://ift.tt/21jt5UW