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Seeing China Clearly It would be comforting to think, as some of Obama's advisers do, that the tensions between China and the U.S. in recent months - the falling-out at the Copenhagen climate-change summit, angry words over Tibet, disagreement about the right way to handle Iran, the woes...
What Obama will face as he sits with Hu is a choice between old ways of looking at the world and a new way of thinking about power. Nowhere will this emerging dynamic be clearer than in the links between the U.S. and China, the other great power of the...
Co-Evolution: A Way Forward In the winter of 1946, George Kennan, who was serving at the U.S. embassy in Moscow, found himself confined to bed with a brutal flu and confronted with another dense cable from Washington, proposing ideas that made no sense for the nation he saw around...
So working with China in a way that can protect our interests is less about direct confrontation of the sort we remember from the Cold War - when the U.S. knew it faced a very dangerous enemy - and more about what we might call co-evolution. The phrase comes from biology...
Here's an example of where China wants to both secure its interests and avoid conflict. The real puzzle about China's currency isn't just the value of the renminbi. It is, rather, how open China will be to flows of money. China has three choices: it can remain...