Word: americanizing
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...relations with Taiwan, it remains its biggest ally and protector. Under the Taiwan Relations Act, U.S. law requires that it sell military hardware to provide for Taiwan's defense, which infuriates China. Last year Beijing cut off military-to-military interactions between the U.S. and China to protest an American arms deal with Taiwan. (See pictures of President Obama visiting Asia...
...that by next year 3% of its power must come from renewable sources, excluding hydroelectricity, in which it is already among the world's top producers. That figure jumps to 8% for 2020. "The top leadership, they are all engineers," says Julian Wong, an analyst with the Center for American Progress, a liberal think tank. "They look at how the U.S. has grown by being a technological leader. China wants to do the same. They've seen the low-carbon sector...
Mutual Uncertainty In the 1950s, columnist Walter Winchell proposed calling the Russians "frenemies" of the U.S. Last year, comedian Stephen Colbert suggested frenemy as a term for China. In fact, Americans and Chinese agree that they aren't sure what to think of each other. According to a poll this month by Thompson Reuters/Ipsos, 34% of American respondents said China was the country with which the U.S. had the most important bilateral relationship, ahead of Britain and Canada. But 56% categorized China as an adversary and just 33% called it an ally. That ambivalence is reflected on the other side...
...Intellectual Property Rights Illegal copying of everything from handbags to DVDs to medicine in China is a source of extreme frustration for many U.S. companies. American software and music companies say that more than $3.5 billion worth of their goods are pirated in China each year. The U.S. has pushed China to step up its enforcement of intellectual-property rights, arguing that it's one way to narrow a trade gap that reached $268 billion last year. While the U.S. is unlikely to make any progress on pushing China to allow its currency to appreciate, it could make a stronger...
...American officials had been holding out hope that the Chinese would allow for live nationwide broadcast of the President's town hall with Chinese youth on Monday in Shanghai. But even as Obama got ready to board his flight to Shanghai on Sunday, U.S. diplomats were still negotiating the terms. "What we've said is simply that the President would like the opportunity to speak to a broad audience of the Chinese people," said Ben Rhodes, a deputy national security adviser. As it turns out, the town hall wasn't broadcast live on television but was rather shown on local...