Bates Gill is executive director of the Asia Society Policy Institute's Center for China Analysis. His most recent book, Daring to Struggle: China’s Global Ambitions under Xi Jinping, was published by Oxford University Press in 2022.
Broad wave of new military-industrial leaders will play big roles in China’s economic and tech development – and, crucially, in how the US-China rivalry plays out.
While modest expectations are healthy, the US secretary of state has the opportunity to offer a vision for the US-China relationship, gain meaningful cooperation on US priorities and open channels of dialogue critical to keeping intensifying competition from spiralling into conflict.