1、2025/6/5 12:29Why should America negotiate with China?https:/www.brookings.edu/articles/why-should-america-negotiate-with-china/1/18Editors note:This article was developed in part through the authors participation ina project organized by the Norwegian Institute for Defense Studies.The views in this
2、piece are the authors alone.Executive summaryMembers of the policy communities in Washington and Beijing are increasinglyreaching a common conclusion on the diminishing value of U.S.?China negotiations.President Donald Trump is an important outlier from this emerging consensus.Hisviews will carry th
3、e day in setting American policy.Thus,the central question facingAmerican policymakers is not whether to engage in negotiations,but rather how todeliver better results from negotiations than previous administrations.To support suchplanning,this paper examines the purposes of direct negotiations.It t
4、hen reviews thenegotiating records of the three previous U.S.administrations to draw lessons fromthose periods for the way forward.From there,the paper focuses on three issues thatcould serve as the basis of future negotiations and a strategy for organizing theprocess.The three issues are trade and
