After declining during the Trump years and the pandemic, U.S.-China track-two dialogues are back. But can they really help Beijing and Washington stabilize relations?
Illustration by Pete Ryan
In early November, a half dozen of America’s most senior retired military officers, including former NATO Supreme Allied Commander Europe, Curtis M. Scaparrotti, and the former director of the National Security Agency, Michael S. Rogers, quietly met in Beijing with retired Chinese officers of similar rank. With President Biden scheduled to meet a week later with Chinese leader Xi Jinping in San Francisco, Pentagon and White House officials asked the Americans to probe whether China seemed read
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If Xi Jinping is becoming more preoccupied with internal politics, it could lead to a period of relative calm in China’s relations with the United States.
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