In this podcast interview, noted modern China historian Jeffrey Wasserstrom discusses relations between China and America in the dawning era of Xi and Trump, with National Committee Senior Director for Education Programs Margot Landman on December 13, 2016.

Jeffrey Wasserstrom is Chancellor's Professor of History at the University of California, Irvine, where he also holds appointments in law and literary journalism. His most recent books are, as editor, The Oxford Illustrated History of Modern China, and, as author, Eight Juxtapositions: China through Imperfect Analogies from Mark Twain to Manchukuo, both published this year. A regular contributor to newspapers, magazines, and blogs, he is a former member of the board of the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations.