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A number of pressing policy challenges are present in the U.S.-China relationship. As the two countries continue to wrestle over issues related to trade, currencies, and international crises like the conflict in Syria, Brookings experts discuss the complicated relationship between the United States and China, and examine China's growing role in international politics.

A McDonald's sign is displayed outside its outlet, the first one which opened in China in 1990, at the southern Chinese city of Shenzhen neighbouring Hong Kong (REUTERS/Bobby Yip).

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The Containment Fallacy: China and the TPP

May 24, 2013, Mireya Solís

Some observers argue that the objective of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade negotiations is the exclusion of China. Mireya Solís discusses why the idea of the TPP as a means to exclude or marginalize China is not only untrue but counterproductive for other TPP members.

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China's New Leaders

China's New Leaders

Before China's 18th Party Congress, Cheng Li profiled 25 possible members of the Politburo, examining their backgrounds, family and patron-client ties, political prospects and policy preferences. See Li's profiles of the seven individuals who were named to the Politburo Standing Committee: