U.S.-China Relations

The latest U.S.-China talks have been less about grand breakthroughs and more about drawing the boundaries of an uneasy coexistence. They reveal two superpowers trying to prevent a crisis neither wants, even as both double-down on strategies the other finds threatening. In Paris, senior economic officials led by U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Chinese Vice Premier He Lifeng, met under the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development umbrella for yet another