How America responds to the rise of Chinese power is one of the most important foreign-policy challenges of the twenty-first century. Obama broadened the Treasury-led economic meetings to a strategic dialogue co-chaired by the State Department with an agenda that includes climate change as well as multilateral issues.
除了处理经济危机之外，奥巴马在处理和中国的关系上也值得一提。美国如何应对中国的崛起成为21世纪最为重要的外交挑战。奥巴马将两国的会谈从财政部主导的经济会议扩充到双方政府主导的战略对话，这其中就包括气候变化等众多问题。