Elizabeth Economy offers a counterpoint: Wang Jisi, a prominent Chinese scholar, stated in a 2018 Financial Times interview that for 200 years the U.S. has maintained a consistent strategic goal of free flow of goods, capital, and information/values; while the Chinese should criticize the U.S., they should recognize that 'China's own actions have changed Sino-U.S. relations and U.S. perceptions of China' and that 'if we are looking for the cause, it was the change in China's policy that led to adjustments in U.S. policy'