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...fair, many Chinese feel the U.S. is mindfully hurting China's interests too: surrounding it with military bases, pressing for currency change, meddling in its internal affairs by selling arms to Taiwan and acknowledging the Dalai Lama. Even Western-oriented Chinese now aver that the U.S. wants to slow the country's rise. And many Chinese worry about what they see as the aimlessness of a weakened U.S. The Chinese want to like Obama, but they regard even his most prized initiatives, like the new U.S. posture on the use of nuclear arms, as a sign of weakness. (No Chinese...
...overlaid with the neuralgia of Marxism, shapes its thinking. Calls for China to be a responsible stakeholder have failed not least because China is ambivalent about the international system as it's currently construed. Even if we could solve the laundry list of perplexities we confront - trade, currency, Tibet, Taiwan - the main problem would linger. So only a solution that functions at the strategic level offers any hope of a durable arrangement. (See five things the U.S. can learn from China...
...swept through Beijing on March 20 and 22, causing the city's weather bureau to issue its worst possible air-quality rating. Other parts of northern China were also affected by the brutal conditions, with residents cautioned to stay indoors. Farther south, air-pollution indexes in Hong Kong and Taiwan reached record levels. While sandstorms are not uncommon in China because of Asia's large interior deserts, growing desertification has exacerbated the problem...
...while Hu can't expect to win much in the way of U.S. concessions on Taiwan and Tibet, his trip to the U.S. could prove valuable on other fronts. China has traditionally stood on the sidelines of major international gatherings of political leaders, in keeping with the dictum of former leader Deng Xiaoping that the Chinese should "disguise their ambitions and hide their claws." As a result, Chinese economic clout now outweighs its diplomatic leverage and soft power. "China has been reluctant to be put in the traditional order," says Xingdong Chen, the chief China economist for BNP Paribas Securities...
...During Thursday's phone call, Hu raised China's concerns about Taiwan and Tibet, Xinhua reported. "Taiwan and Dalai are two issues that China will always mention in occasions like this, but I don't think China will expect any constructive replies from the U.S.," says Jin. "I think China will mention those two issues just to declare their position." (See pictures of Obama visiting Asia...