U.S. & ChinaAs the Hu visit dominates the headlines the U.S. media is focusing on the issue of U.S. trade with China. In a
Financial Times op-ed (
China Is Stagnating in Its "Trapped Transition"), Minxin Pei, Senior Associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, looks at the anomalies in China's economic and political transitions. Although China was an initial pioneer in embracing market reforms, Pei suggests that China has now fallen behind in terms of privatization, regulation, and the rule of law.
U.S. & China
Here is the
White House transcript of the arrival of President Hu at the White House, the arrival ceremony took place on the South Lawn and was followed by lunch. A news conference in the Oval Office was held later. The White House transcript of the event can be found
here.
U.S. & ChinaJoseph S. Nye Jr. seeks middle ground between Washington’s "panda huggers" and "China hawks" in this
Boston Globe article (
Assessing China's power).
U.S. & China"Taiwan, bilateral trade, international security and human rights are expected to dominate this week's historic talks in Washington D.C. between U.S. President George W. Bush and his Chinese counterpart Hu Jintao," CNN reports (
Taiwan, trade to top Hu-Bush talks). In "
The Trouble with Taiwan," Ted Galen Carpenter, The Cato Institute's vice president for defense and foreign policy studies, and Justin Logan, a Cato policy analyst, write: "It is possible that the United States could decide to involve itself in a conflict between Taiwan and China. That decision would be ill-advised in its own right, given the potential dangers, but it certainly should not be left to Taiwan's government to force such a momentous decision." Should the media focus more on trade issues between the U.S. and China at the expense of security issues? In the coverage of this weeks visit by Hu, what issues are you most interested in learning more about?
