U.S.-China tensions may be sharp today but are “neither inevitable nor permanent,” former Reuters Beijing correspondent Terril Yue Jones told students at Tsinghua University on Nov. 17. Jones, now an international journalism instructor at the Keck Center for International and Strategic Studies at Claremont McKenna College, described Donald Trump’s two presidential administrations as an important turning point in relations between the world’s two largest economies.

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