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Our relations with China now offer a chance to do something enduring, historic and essential. But there's some urgency: Chinese who are friendly to the West are quick to point out that the leaders arriving in 2012 may be less inclined to cooperate with the U.S. and will sit...
And the U.S.? Will Obama sit with Hu prepared to develop fresh ways to defend what Americans care about? We have to hope so. If not, it's likely that the U.S. will soon discover that China is not the only nation in the world that needs to worry that...
After weeks of intemperate rhetoric on both sides of the Pacific - on issues ranging from trade to the Dalai Lama to Taiwan - cooler heads in both Beijing and Washington now seem to be back in control. Barack Obama and Hu Jintao had an hour-long phone conversation last week, after...
Those reasons extend beyond an overstimulated domestic economy. The geopolitics of the move are also pressing for Beijing. Though exports collapsed last year as the world plunged into recession - China's current account surplus declined by about half as a percentage of its overall economy - that adjustment phase is over...
The question is whether anything other than a massive, one-off revaluation in the RMB versus the dollar - something that is not in the cards - will have any significant impact on employment in the U.S. or Europe. Economists differ around the edges of this debate, but most agree that a...