U.S. Role

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?

posted by Joel @ 11:21 AM