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...least some of China's temptation to engage in conflict with the West comes from this sense of self-protection, from an intense debate about whether the West is really trying to welcome China or to do something to it yet again. One well-connected Chinese scholar wrote recently that even at the level of the Politburo, there had been intense fights about Hu's attending the Washington nuclear summit after what was seen as the U.S.'s "ruthless undermining of Chinese dignity." The West needs to remember that this excitability among internal forces emerges as a result of China...
...sure, but it is mixed with plenty of exhausted eye rubbing. To sit with China's leaders as they ponder the enormous challenges facing them in financial markets, corruption, civilian-military relations, Tibet, Xinjiang and a dozen other areas is a reminder of the luxury Americans have to consider one problem like health care for a year. (See pictures of the making of modern China...
...that the 2009 phrase of the year was beishidai, or "the passive-voice era." The phrase, state-run Xinhua news later explained, "is being employed by Chinese to express a sentiment deeper than just the passive voice: they are using it to convey a sense of helplessness in deciding one's own fate." There's a sharp edge to this phrase's popularity, since it was first used on Chinese blogs to describe court cases in which suspects were found to have committed suicide under unlikely conditions, probably killed by police or other inmates. Such a suspect was, police said...
...Being done to. The phrase touches painfully on China's sense of worry on the global stage. And perhaps it also explains one of the most popular Internet stories of 2009 in China, about a young waitress who knifed a party official who tried to force himself on her. Here, Web surfers noted, was someone at least doing something back. China seems at times to have an instinctive need to stand up for itself that stretches beyond what cold reason might suggest. The term Chinese use to describe the desire to wash away a sense of national humiliation is xuechi...
...Part of the reason co-evolution could work is that it puts China alongside the U.S. in thinking about these new rules. That won't be easy. The U.S. is used to telling the rest of the world what to do. It will require energetic diplomacy. Practically, one item on Obama's agenda this week should be starting to retire the forum we now use for engaging China - something called the Strategic and Economic Dialogue - which is sort of like an annual parent-teacher conference with China. The slow-moving dialogue drives issues at a pace largely irrelevant to what...