ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the evolution of the US policy response to China and US efforts to build closer transatlantic coordination on China policy. It argues that the changes to how the US deals with China are part of a long-term rethinking that respond to the same problems that the EU and other powers have been facing, and that the direction of change is mirrored across virtually every advanced industrialized democracy. Nonetheless, it sees only a partial alignment on China among the Western allies, with agreement on the basic analysis and some commonality of approaches on key China-related issues, but caution among Europeans about the openness of that alignment, and at best modest progress on setting aside long-standing transatlantic differences in other areas for the sake of building a common front.
