Chinese political analyst Victor Gao says the United States has accepted China’s growing power.
The United States realized it could not continue “trying to control the whole world,” says Victor Gao, vice president of the Center for China and Globalization in Beijing.
Gao told host Steve Clemons that an improvement in Sino-U.S. relations is “inevitable,” although he cautioned that some U.S. policymakers still view China as the number one threat and that Chinese officials “never underestimate what American neofascists will cook up next.”
In this wide-ranging conversation, Gao argues that Beijing has replaced Washington as the world’s champion of free trade and will not allow the United States to dominate the field of artificial intelligence.
Published on January 4, 2026
