On Wednesday, April 27, 2016, Deputy Secretary of State Antony Blinken testified before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and took questions for nearly 90 minutes from the attending senators. The hearing is a tour-de-force on the current state of U.S. policy on China and the points of contention in U.S. policy circles. The exchanges in the hearing also illustrate the trade-offs and dilemmas U.S. policymakers believe they face on China.