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...comments follow a period of deteriorating Sino-U.S. relations that began late last year, when he was accused of snubbing Obama during the Copenhagen climate talks. On Sunday, Wen said he had been slighted first when he wasn't invited to a meeting of national leaders during the conference in Denmark. He responded by sending a deputy official, which prompted criticism from some delegations...
...heritage and culture of benevolence to be superior to a culture based on property and rights. Such moral universalism is ethnocentric, and, might I add, it is also part of the reason why Google’s move to challenge China’s censorship laws has strained Sino-American relations...
...freely is actually counterproductive. By invoking human rights to argue for every policy change that we would like to see from Beijing, we delegitimize the Chinese government by implying that it does not care about the welfare of its citizens. This does not bode well for the future of Sino-American relations...
...recent weeks, China's government made it clear that any meeting between President Obama and the Dalai Lama threatened to further damage already tense Sino-U.S. relations. But after the President held an hour-long talk on Thursday at the White House with the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader, the reaction from Beijing was relatively muted. (See pictures of the Dalai Lama's visit to the White House...
...Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Ma Zhaoxu issued a written statement, saying, "The United States' behavior constitutes a serious interference in China's internal affairs and seriously hurts the feelings of the Chinese people and seriously harms Sino-U.S. relations." The comments are in line with what Chinese diplomats have said after the Dalai Lama met U.S. leaders in the past, during warmer times between the two nations. Part of Beijing's restraint this week may be due to the fact that the meeting came during the Chinese New Year, the country's biggest holiday, when most officials...