Ever since China re-emerged on the global higher-education stage following the Cultural Revolution, it has had a close, sometimes symbiotic with the United States. U.S. Universities helped China rebuild its educational infrastructure, while talented Chinese students and scientists have filled U.S. classrooms and laboratories. For the past several decades, academics in each country have frequently regarded the other as key research and scholarly partners. But in recent years, the relationship between the two knowledge super-powers has become competitive and at times contentious. The speakers will look at how student mobility, research cooperation, and other forms of Sino-American academic collaboration have been complicated by a host of issues including domestic political pressures, geopolitics, economic imperatives, the safeguarding of intellectual property, and concerns about academic freedom.