The Aspen Strategy Group is proud to release a series of original papers and op-eds authored by ASG members and distinguished experts who joined us for the 2025 ASG Workshop. This collection examines the rapidly evolving U.S.-China relationship at a time of major upheaval in the international system.
This publication includes original essays as well as pieces sparked and informed by the sessions that have since been published in external outlets. Thank you to our authors for contributing to this effort.
“Our meeting this summer, and this collection of articles, aimed to step back from the issue, to question our conventional assumptions and examine U.S.-China relations from a fresh perspective. The pieces collected here reflect some key themes from those discussions, delving into the political, economic, military, and technological dimensions of the great power competition unfolding today.”
– Condoleezza Rice, Co-Chair; Nicholas Burns, Co-Chair; and Anja Manuel, Executive Director
Thank you to Graham Allison, Kay Bailey Hutchison, Elizabeth Economy, Jane Harman, David Ignatius, Leland Miller, Anne Neuberger, David Petraeus, Lawrence Summers, Kent Walker, and Odd Arne Westad for contributing to this effort.
Table of Contents
Introduction
Condoleezza Rice, Nicholas Burns, and Anja Manuel
Aspen Strategy Group
The Coming Storm: Learning from the Past to Prevent Great Power War Today
Odd Arne Westad
Aspen Strategy Group
America First, China Strategy Last
Elizabeth Economy
Hoover Institution
How to Rebuild Bipartisanship in National Security
Kay Bailey Hutchison and Jane Harman
TIME
Meeting China Anew: Twenty Simplistic, Inconvenient, and/or Heretical Questions
Graham Allison
Aspen Strategy Group
How Strategists Think About Keeping the Peace in the Taiwan Strait
David Ignatius
The Washington Post
For China, the Ukraine War Is a Laboratory
David Petraeus and Clara Kaluderovic
The National Interest
Don’t Just Invent the Future. Deploy It. How Getting Americans to Use AI Will Secure U.S. Leadership
Kent Walker
Aspen Strategy Group
China Is Winning the Cyberwar: America Needs a New Strategy of Deterrence
Anne Neuberger
Foreign Affairs
The U.S.-China Trade War Is Dead. Long Live the Supply Chain War.
Leland Miller
Aspen Strategy Group
The China Economic Challenge: Strength, Fragility, and the Limits of Isolation
Lawrence Summers
Aspen Strategy Group
Please note that all authors’ opinions are their own. This compilation does not reflect the views of all meeting participants, the Aspen Strategy Group, or the Aspen Institute.
