Reader JTH sends in the following link from Aviation Week: Coop Op (subscription required). The lead in: 'China's progress in space and NASA's new exploration policy might be ingredients for space cooperation between Beijing and Washington.'

Tom's comment:

Very encouraging to see. Notice how this stuff comes naturally to USG bureaucracies--both civilian and military commands in the field (like PACOM) and yet is so automatically repulsed by the administration's China hawks.

The policy disconnect on China ebbs and wanes. You can call it hedge strategy or good cop/bad cop. To me, it's the lack of strategic direction, so it's every agency for itself.