The U.S.-China relationship is back on track. Let’s hope it stays that way.

For all the focus on the many geopolitical crises around the world, the one that is potentially most dangerous has actually been trending in a positive direction. Ian Bremmer, founder of Eurasia Group, told me: “The biggest upside surprise of recent months has got to be the stabilization of U.S.-China relations.”

U.S. national security adviser Jake Sullivan’s meeting with China’s top diplomat, Wang Yi, for private talks this week is one more sign of a thaw in relations that in 2021 had both sides yelling at each other in Anchorage. Military-to-military talks have resumed. Treasury Secretary Janet L. Yellen and Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo have both had constructive trips to China. The U.S. Indo-Pacific Command noted earlier this month that since the Biden-Xi summit in November, Chinese military planes seem to have stopped their dangerous maneuvers. Over the prior two years, since the fall of 2021, there had been nearly 300 such incidents against U.S. aircraft and those of U.S. allies and partners. And the Taiwanese elections, while going against China’s hopes, were handled maturely by both sides.

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