The Dragon, the Eagle, and the Private Sector

China and the United States appear destined to lead the world over the next several decades. Only as history plays itself out will their respective roles and the precise blend of warmth and antagonism, interdependence and rivalry in their bilateral relationship be revealed. This book explores an important, and perhaps surprising, shared feature of their efforts to forge successful futures for their citizens: public-private collaboration to accomplish some of each society's most vital collective purposes. Our goals are twofold: first, to offer definitions, principles, and prescriptions that can help decision-makers understand, and wisely use, this special model for getting things done for the public; and second, to examine the evolution of public-privatecollaboration in the United States and China across five policy domains offering a rich spectrum of options and choices for publicprivate interaction--