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There is an interesting question the world community might have asked each other, and may be going to ask in the future; is it the way for another cold war?, Yes China is growing (and India too), the world super power The USA, is watching all these. How the world police going to handle this…….?The striking difference between China and America is just how consistent China is. You just know how they will react when you sell weapons to Taiwan or justify drug smuggling on mental health. The Americans on the other hand are a confusing mass of random noise. Policies come and go faster than the changing of the wind.
The point about Obama’s statement in November about focusing on commonalities, not differences is that it probably took until now for the Chinese policy makers to translate and understand what he was talking about. And just as they’re about to understand and maybe respond in kind, the policy gets reversed.
The big problem with american society is that its about now now now, its about what you can get today, not what you can work towards. Which takes time and effort, not somethine lazy americans can bother about.
What the american government fail to see is how damaging this actually is to their cause. Case in point is Obama himself and his popularity dropping like a stone because he couldn’t wave a wand and solve all of america’s problems in a 7 days.
Sino-US relations, for anyone living on Mars this past month, are going through a rough patch. So much is undeniable, so the more interesting question is “how rough” and does this herald a more fundamental or strategic shift in relations?
On one level, the recent railing and ranting of the Chinese editorial writers on Tibet and US arms sales to Taiwan can be dismissed as the synthetic, pro-forma rage that is to be expected on these occasions.
China’s leaders, just like Mr Obama and his democratic senators, have to play to the home constituency. China’s public is in no mood to be pushed around, and the leadership knows it.
(In a Pew Global Attitudes Project survey last year 41pc of Chinese named US as the world’s leading power, but the same number named China in that category. The interesting point is that that was almost double the number who named China in 2008. Expectations are growing.)
It is also true that the economic interdependence of the US and China means that common sense (or ‘common interests’) must in the end trump the ephemeral satisfaction of blowing diplomatic raspberries at each other.
It’s worth remembering, as a senior foreign diplomat observed to me this week, that for all the recent hollering, preparations are still going behind the scenes on for the next session of the Strategic & Economic Dialogue between the US and China which is to be held in May or June.
And so the brickbats keep on flying between Washington and Beijing, with the latest salvo coming after Barack Obama promised a group of democratic senators he’d get tough with China over trade rules and the value of the Chinese yuan.
China has said talks of fresh sanctions against Iran over its nuclear programme would "complicate the situation" and could derail diplomatic efforts.
Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi called for more direct talks with Iran instead of sanctions.
Earlier, UN diplomatic sources said the US was circulating a discussion paper outlining suggested further sanctions.
The measures include expanding travel bans and freezing the assets of people connected with the nuclear industry.
Russia later said it was moving closer to the West's view, to an agreement on the need for new economic sanctions against Iran, according to a leading Russian MP.
"On this question, mutual understanding between Russia and its partners in the international arena has clearly increased," Konstantin Kosachyov, head of the international affairs committee in the lower house of parliament and a Kremlin ally, told Russian TV.
The move comes despite the apparent acceptance by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of a deal allowing Iran to send most of its low-enriched uranium abroad in return for research reactor fuel rods. These would to be used in a small research reactor Iran has producing medical isotopes.
Washington has called on Iran to match its words with actions.
Last month, diplomats said Iran had informed the International Atomic Energy Agency that it did not accept the terms of the deal and had instead demanded a simultaneous exchange on its territory.
The US and its allies fear Iran is attempting to develop nuclear weapons. Iran insists its nuclear programme is entirely peaceful.
Courtecy : Various Sources
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