Don’t expect US-China ties to improve, ‘best scenario’ is to avoid conflict: Chinese scholar

Professor Wang Jisi (left) with RSIS dean Kumar Ramakrishna at the Parkroyal Collection Marina Bay hotel on April 6. - RSIS

SINGAPORE (The Straits Times/Asia News Network): Domestic politics in the United States and China is the most decisive factor shaping their bilateral relationship, which could worsen, said an eminent Chinese scholar on Thursday (April 6).

Professor Wang Jisi, from Peking University in Beijing, said that if the trajectories of their domestic politics continue in the current direction, the downward spiral may not be reversible.