One is China, and the other is the West. KEYU JIN: I grew up in Beijing, but I chose to go to the U.S. for high school as a Chinese exchange student when I was 14. And I lived with an American family.

Ms. Jin — whose father, a former Chinese vice finance minister, now heads the Beijing-based Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank — is a speaker at the Athens Democracy Forum this week.

The economist Keyu Jin argues that if it can’t, “peaceful coexistence may not be possible.” By David Marchese Just like relationships between people, relationships between countries can all ...