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It’s easy to forget that, as recently as the start of this century, the US was China’s biggest ally. Washington saw Beijing as a necessary bulwark against Moscow, and consistently supported China’s entry into the world economy ever since rapprochement in the 1970s, including its accession to the World Trade Organisation.

These days, the relationship couldn’t be more different. Why have relations cooled quite so fast? When was the turning point? And can we now say that rapprochement was a strategic mistake from the US?

Bob Davis is a former senior editor at the Wall Street Journal, who was posted to China between 2011 and 2014. In recent years, he has been conducting a long running series of interviews - with dozens of high level officials over successive American administrations - for the online magazine, The Wire China. He has interviewed defense secretaries, ambassadors, national security advisors, treasury secretaries and more. Now, these interviews have been collated into a new e-book released by The Wire China: <a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/Broken-Engagement-Interviews-remade-towards-ebook/dp/B0F1G3SJ3W/ref=sr_1_1?crid=12ZAO4WTV29NW&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.ddTN4IYItucSbhcEbrxNtC7JXW4KoQAxjMPL0ttS6c4tLI9lgjhZ5y5Xh7ubGOfXrYHg5xiSjOJwoo-QX9VyanPd0-XceF53-sEPam1yq3qxghiwezVT90Qs84De2Hk6bo1x-D1Y_JMLdVKpYKjrtok_JW8je3LJ1Kur-D2XTe4xHvWkpwvFGB9vRsCG4hRn-g7RvvDP_X9vA6zUVSqeHuRHIqtVsTUaTMmKcVgdBvE.2FBH1mLOviUgrS84KHUQ8UH9iuKv6zQPgqwuev6gEHM&dib_tag=se&keywords=broken+engagement&qid=1742224076&sprefix=broken+engagement%2Caps%2C104&sr=8-1">Broken Engagement</a>.

Through these interviews, we can see the changing direction of US-China relations through the eyes and words of those at the very heart of America’s decisions. Bob joins this episode to tell us all about it.</div>


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