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...moment, at least, Sino-American relations are relatively warm. With Hu and U.S. President George W. Bush having already met on five occasions in just three years - including a t?te-?-t?te in Beijing last November - few people expect any groundbreaking initiatives this time around. "Hu wants to show a smiling face to the public in the U.S. and say, 'We like you very much and we will stick to peaceful development,'" says Jin Canrong, a professor of international relations at Beijing's Renmin University. Jin thinks Hu will not only try to allay U.S. unease over China's rising...
...Public opinion polls conducted in recent years by the Horizon Group, an independent research outfit in Beijing, show that an almost schizophrenic attitude toward the U.S. extends far beyond the upper echelons of Chinese society. A survey in late 2005 showed that two-thirds of the respondents thought Sino-American relations had improved over the last year and that three-quarters of them liked American culture - but the U.S. was also rated as the world's most unfriendly country toward China. Some 56% said they didn't believe that Americans respect China...
...ever with things Chinese, the weight of history hangs heavily over the Sino-American relationship. When officials of the Qing Empire began visiting America in the 1860s, some kept diaries that expressed what now seem like eerily familiar opinions. In their book Land Without Ghosts: Chinese Impressions of America from the Mid-Nineteenth Century to the Present, historians R. David Arkush and Leo O. Lee write that during the first period of interaction, from 1841 to around 1900, China's view of the U.S. was a mixture of wonder and fear. Woken from torpid indifference to the outside world...
...authoritarian Alexander Lukashenko to power; Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice holds a security summit in Australia with her counterparts from that country and Japan. Yet those headlines, together with the ones announcing closer economic ties and strategic ties during President Putin's visit to Beijing, hint at how Sino-Russian concerns over U.S. policy elsewhere may prolong the Iran deadlock...
...following a path already established by Motech, which rose 130% on Taiwan's small-cap bourse last year, outstripping other pure-play solar manufacturers such as Germany's SolarWorld (up 61% last year). Sino-American was another spectacular winner: its share price trebled last year on the back of a shortage in silicon wafers...