Recently, nearly 30 China experts got together to discuss how everything went so wrong and how it can be fixed.
Clockwise from top left; Daniel Rosen, Elizabeth Economy, Graham Allison, Susan Shirk, Andrew Erickson, and Jessica Chen Weiss. Illustrations by Lauren Crow and Kate Copeland.
On a cold Friday morning in late November, a group of nearly 30 academics, officials, and analysts — each of whom had spent their entire career working on the U.S.-China relationship — gathered in a nondescript conference room on the campus of Harvard University to discuss two big questions: how did everything go so wrong and how can it be fixed?
As Orville Schell — one of the event’s organizers and a kind of dean of the ‘China-watching’ community — said from the podium, “We a
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