Kissinger Institute

Yun Sun: "The rhetoric and narrative of hostile mentality has always existed whenever there were problems between the US and China. In China today, they realize Trump's rhetoric has put China in a difficult position. "

Sun: "But on the issue of a new Cold War the Chinese want people to know it takes two sides to fight a Cold War. "

Robert Daly: "Americans and Chinese are not alienated from each other even remotely. You can tell this from the trade relationship and cooperative educational relationships throughout the United States and China"

Daly: "There are some worrisome signs that each side would want to set up blocks, but there's also been a great deal of pushback against soft power- against Trumpism and Xi-ism" over past year. Other nations' interests are constraining soft power development"

Daly on future framing Amb. John Bolton's recent Africa remarks as a counter to China: "First, this is bad Africa policy and implies a desire to set up blocks" against China

@MeredithOyen : " It's interesting that one of the reasons we have a manageable long-term relationship is movement of Chinese students coming to the U.S. But a lot of developments this year are troubling"- talk of student visas from Chinese students , one year visas in tech, etc

Oyen: "Confucius institutes and scholar organizations have come under increased scrutiny as influence activities," notes important questions to be asked about Chinese money but "some of these questions can get easily overblown"

Oyen: suspicion "richocheting out from reports on Chinese influence there are ways where there can be new kinds of suspicion of Chinese in the United States, and this does not bolster a strong and necessary foundation in the Sino-American relationship"