US China Relations, Why USA not in BRI, Modernizing vs Westernizing - POV by John Thornton

Conversation took place at Austin University between John Thornton and R DeShazo, Dean, @TheLBJSchool of Public Affairs, UT Austin on Friday, April 28, 2023.
Topic of conversation interestingly was about 'Navigating the Future of US-China Relations'.

John Lawson Thornton is an American businessman and professor and director of the Global Leadership Program at Tsinghua University in Beijing. He is also executive chairman of Barrick Gold Corporation and non-executive chairman of PineBridge Investments. Thornton stepped down as co-president of Goldman Sachs in 2003.
He is a trustee, advisory board member or member of the Asia Society, General Atlantic, China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC), China Reform Forum, National Committee on U.S.-China Relations, China Institute, McKinsey Knowledge Council, the Hotchkiss School, Council on Foreign Relations, China Foreign Affairs University and the Tsinghua University School of Economics and Management. In 2007, Institutional Investor Magazine named him one of 40 individuals who have had the greatest influence on global financial markets over the past forty years. In 2008, he was awarded the Friendship Award of the People’s Republic of China, the highest honor accorded to a non-Chinese citizen.

Will be releasing another video in a week of two Dr. Eric Li(founder and managing partner of Chengwei Capital, Political Scientist and a member of the IISS Council) that gives some previews to the Chinese economic plan. For specifics, you should read it, the video would only give you a preface to the document itself which i think is about 300 pages long.

The 14th Five-Year Plan of China, officially the 14th Five-Year Plan for Economic and Social Development and Long-range Objectives Through the Year 2035 of PRC, is a set of economic goals designed to strengthen the Chinese economy between 2021 and 2025