The recent meetings between Chinese President Xi Jinping and his US counterpart President Donald Trump has put the world's most consequential bilateral relationship back at the center of global attention. As the two sides set a new tone of building a constructive relationship of strategic stability, how will they expand cooperation and manage their differences to stabilize ties? And what challenges and opportunities lie ahead?

Guests in this episode of Dialogue are Chen Dongxiao, president of the Shanghai Institutes for International Studies, and Robert Ross, professor of political science at Boston College.