Are the Conflicts between the U.S. and China Manageable?

Although President Donald Trump has built personal relationship with President Xi Jinping since the Mar-a-Lago summit in April 201 7, the conflicts between the two countries remain. The U.S. is worried about if it is able to continue maintaining its status of the global power and the dominant power in Asia while China is dramatically expanding its global influence. A new U.S. National Security Strategy labels China as a “competitor” challenging American interests. There is speculation that a war between the U.S. and China is inevitable. Will both the U.S. and China be able to maintain a healthy competition to avoid a war? How will the U.S. manage the new type of relations with a rising China? This paper will address these questions and argue that although the stakes are as high as ever for the United States and China to manage their relations, the conflicts between the two countries are manageable (Bates, 2005). Both the U.S. and China do not have any choice, but to understand each other and learn how to deal with their competitors. China-U.S. relations will be gradually getting better after the Trump administration works more with China.