Paula S. Harrell teaches contemporary China at Georgetown University and is the author of Asia for the Asians: China in the Lives of Five Meiji Japanese (MerwinAsia/Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University, 2012) and Sowing the Seeds of Change: Chinese Students, Japanese Teachers, 1895-1905 (Stanford University, 1992).
For the sake of continued economic growth and stability it is urgent that both sides replace bellicose talk with a commitment to clear-eyed pragmatism and sustained cooperation.