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...Seeing China Clearly It would be comforting to think, as some of Obama's advisers do, that the tensions between China and the U.S. in recent months - the falling-out at the Copenhagen climate-change summit, angry words over Tibet, disagreement about the right way to handle Iran, the woes of U.S. companies in China and a rumbling unhappiness over China's mercantilism - can be passed over as normal strains. But no serious student of history would believe this. As China grows, as it scrapes against international norms and habits of a different era, the sparks won't stop coming...
...from an intense debate about whether the West is really trying to welcome China or to do something to it yet again. One well-connected Chinese scholar wrote recently that even at the level of the Politburo, there had been intense fights about Hu's attending the Washington nuclear summit after what was seen as the U.S.'s "ruthless undermining of Chinese dignity." The West needs to remember that this excitability among internal forces emerges as a result of China's success and not always because of what we do or don't do. It's an instinct that...
...worth asking: Who, exactly, will President Barack Obama be looking at in Washington as he sits down with China's President Hu Jintao during the coming nuclear-security summit? A friend? An enemy? The fact is that China is changing so fast, we don't really know yet. What Obama will really be looking at is something far more important: the chance to use dynamic, creative statesmanship to remake a relationship that will define the next 50 years of global power. No problem of international politics can be solved without a coherent China strategy. So the more interesting question...
...political influence, economic competitiveness, an attractive image and moral force in diplomacy. In so many words, Hu's strategy suggests, China must use what strength it can to make sure it isn't being done to again. It wouldn't let itself be done to at the climate-change summit in Copenhagen - and it's determined that it won't be done to in currency markets...
...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 which the Chinese President agreed to attend a nuclear summit in Washington. And on the volatile issue of trade, a grand bargain of sorts now appears to be taking shape: In return for delaying a decision on whether to list China as a "currency manipulator" - long a dream of protectionists in Congress - China is sending signals that it will soon...