The APLN Asia Dialogue on China-US Relations brings together senior experts and scholars from China, the United States, and the wider Asia-Pacific region to discuss China-US relations within a regional context.

• The project aims to:
  Plug knowledge gaps and increase the understanding among regional stakeholders of how complex regional dynamics impact China-US relations. Addressing knowledge gaps is necessary because, despite the long-term eastward shift of geopolitical competition, research and dialogue on great power relations continue to be dominated by west-centric perspectives, increasing the risk of false assumptions, narrow analysis, misunderstandings, and poor policy choices and outcomes.
• Increase awareness of the Asia-centred dynamics that influence China-US bilateral relations, to improve the policy options available to the United States, China, and other states in the Asia-Pacific to help reduce the risk of conflict; and to increase the sense of agency and responsibility among states in Asia on their capacity to shape the region’s security environment via collaborative initiatives that promote stability.
• Address China-US geopolitical tensions via a third-party, Asia-centred approach, which offers the opportunity to engage in constructive dialogue on issues that are difficult to address in bilateral China-US Track 2 initiatives due to perception gaps and fundamental differences of opinion.

The project is supported by a generous grant from the Andrew Carnegie Foundation.