The united states and china have also established the high level us china senior dialogue to discuss international political issues and work out resolutions us trade deficit in billions goods and services by country in 2017 in september 2009 a trade dispute emerged between the united states and china which came after the us imposed . The united states also seeks progress on areas of disagreement such as chinas territorial claims in the south china sea and lack of respect for human rights and religious freedom in addition to regular discussions between senior us officials and their chinese counterparts the united states uses a range of exchanges dialogues and people . John king fairbank first wrote the book the united states and china in 1948 recognising the lack of good information historically and politically about china it has been revised a number of times taking into account more scholarship and learning as well as the developments in relationship with china the korean conflict the vietnamese . The united states orders china to close its consulate in houston texas alleging that it was a hub of espionage and intellectual property theft china condemns the order and retaliates by closing