The good news is that China has the capability to manage its quality crisis; government and industry are on the right path. What is needed is a collaborative relationship between the US and China and supply chain owners taking responsibility for their products.

Clearly US voters want change, but the US-China relationship is generally moving in the right direction and it is possibly the Bush administration's best foreign policy success. If we are going to secure the US-China supply chain, the next administration should expand engagement with China and view it as a partner rather than competitor.

It is true that the US competes with China for natural resources and foreign investment. But the US-China relationship should be collaborative and not combative. Presidential campaign rhetoric ignored more than 230 years of US business success in China and the political collaboration that goes hand-in-hand with that success.