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This article deals with U.S. President Bill Clinton's policy toward China which includes establishing a strategic partnership in 1997. While the Clinton administration dreams of strategic partnership, Congress is looking for Chinese concessions on several issues and is increasingly concerned about Chinese threats. In a June 1997 speech, U.S. National Security Advisor Sandy Berger suggested that China would move either toward inward-looking nationalism or toward outward-looking integration. The policy challenge posed by China is that it is capable of being cooperative and assertive simultaneously This policy issue requires the president to educate the American public, explaining why there is no silver bullet to transform China and how to accept diplomatic results that are only half satisfactory.

Focuses on the changes that have taken place in Communist China. Opinion of China experts that Chinese Communists were merely agrarian reformers; Abandonment of Nationalist China that would create no crisis of conscience among self-described realists; Discussion on the recent hearings by the U.S. House Committee on Foreign Affairs and the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.