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Craig Kafura and Nick Zeller unpack the results of a recent Chicago Council-Carter Center survey of Chinese public opinion.

"The shadow of much history looms" over China's response to Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi's recent comments on Taiwan, Paul Heer writes.

"The decision is going to come down to whether it's Congress' responsibility to tax people and to therefore regulate tariffs, or whether the president really does have carte blanche to do these things" under the IEEPA, Cécile Shea says.

Craig Kafura unpacks new Council polling that shows 53 percent of Americans now want to pursue a policy of cooperation and engagement with Beijing.

"We'll see how the working levels are able to negotiate on some of these really sticky points like finalizing energy purchases, like finalizing that TikTok transfer," Craig Kafura says.

New Council polling finds Americans oppose higher tariffs on China and are warming to the idea of economic cooperation.

"There are some encouraging signs if you’re sitting in China and you’ve been arguing for a more diplomacy-heavy approach toward the United States," Craig Kafura says.

"As Americans eulogize soft power, they should push past nostalgia to consider what precisely has been lost," Suzanne Nossel writes.

"The United States should try to influence the new networks its allies are crafting, not resist them," Julianne Smith argues in Foreign Affairs.

Suzanne Nossel analyzes President Trump's role in the ceasefire plan and why, in today's diplomacy, style now matters just as much as substance.