And the United States hopes to sell more goods and services to the Chinese as well. On the other hand, the United States and China seem always locked in low-level conflict. The United States bombed the Chinese embassy in Belgrade. The United States says it was an accident, and the Chinese find that hard to believe. China held the crew of a downed U.S. spy plane for an unexplained 11 days following a mid-air collision with a Chinese jet fighter.
China says the U.S. plane caused the accident, and the United States finds that hard to believe.
The Chinese are upset over U.S. military support for Taiwan. The United States is upset over Chinese persecution of religious groups. An important part of building trust between any two entities is knowledge. It seems that neither side in this situation seems to know much about the motivations and complexity of the other side. One such site is part of the Emerging From Conflict program at the Stanley Foundation.