--- title: Sustaining diplomacy amid competition in US-China relations description: Nicholas Burns, former U.S. ambassador to China, spoke at an MIT Energy Initiative event about the state of U.S.-China relations, describing them as... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/sustaining-diplomacy-amid-competition-in-us-china-relations-vcmj2ubkm twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Sustaining diplomacy amid competition in US-China relations | daily.dev og:description: Nicholas Burns, former U.S. ambassador to China, spoke at an MIT Energy Initiative event about the state of U.S.-China relations, describing them as... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/sustaining-diplomacy-amid-competition-in-us-china-relations-vcmj2ubkm og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/vCmj2UBkM.png og:image:alt: Sustaining diplomacy amid competition in US-China relations og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Sustaining diplomacy amid competition in US-China relations **[MIT News](https://daily.dev/sources/mit)** · 4 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Nicholas Burns, former U.S. ambassador to China, spoke at an MIT Energy Initiative event about the state of U.S.-China relations, describing them as competitive, tough, and adversarial across military, technology, trade, and values. He highlighted climate change and clean energy as potential areas for cooperation, while noting China's dominance in rare earth elements and clean energy production. Burns also drew attention to the stark disparity in STEM education between the two countries — 36% of Chinese university students major in STEM versus 5% in the U.S. — and emphasized the importance of sustained diplomacy to manage competition and avoid conflict. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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