Jessica Chen Weiss

JESSICA CHEN WEISS IS A PROFESSOR OF GOVERNMENT AT CORNELL UNIVERSITY AND THE AUTHOR OF “POWERFUL PATRIOTS: NATIONALIST PROTEST IN CHINA’S FOREIGN RELATIONS”

Chinese President Xi Jinping shakes hands with then US vice president Joe Biden in the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, December 4, 2013.

America and China don’t need to knock each other out to win

COMPETITION and conflict between the United States and China have continued to intensify. On Aug 2, the House speaker, Nancy Pelosi, visited Taiwan to showcase congressional support for the self-gover...