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The China trade reality show

Posted by seumasach on December 4, 2018

The rise of China to global economic dominance is indeed unstoppable: the question is whether the USA can engage constructively with China and share to some degree in the success or whether it will fall into 4th world status.

David P.Goldman

Asia Times

4th december, 2018

For at least a month, there has been no doubt that Presidents Donald Trump and Xi Jinping would agree to agree at the Buenos Aires summit. The threats, remonstrations and hints of high officials were for the most part scripted. Buenos Aires was less negotiation than reality show.

When the dust settles, America and China will have a deal that allows Trump to claim victory and allows China to become the world’s dominant economy.

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Nuclear espionage charge for China firm with one-third stake in UK’s Hinkley Point

Posted by seumasach on August 11, 2016

A timely intervention by the Americans just to make sure there’s no backsliding on their post-Brexit, “containment” of China policy for us.

Guardian

11th August, 2016

The Chinese company with a major stake in the proposed Hinkley Point C nuclear power station has been charged by the US government over nuclear espionage, according to the US justice department.

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Quiproquo : la vente de banques US à la Chine et la réévaluation du yuan

Posted by seumasach on May 26, 2012

Alfredo Jalife-Rahme

Voltairenet

25th May, 2012

See also: Let’s build a strategic partnership with China!

Le quatrième rencontre pour le « Dialogue Stratégique et Économique entre les États-Unis et la Chine » [1] vient de se tenir à Pékin, les 3 et 4 mai 2012. C’est le sommet bilatéral le plus important au monde, et il en ressort un certain nombre de résultats significatifs, selon China Economic Net [2], ce qui manifeste une détente remarquable, après une étape de brutale détérioration des relations entre les deux puissances.

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The New Face of U.S.-China Relations: “Strategic Reassurance” or Old-Fashioned Rollback?

Posted by smeddum on July 21, 2010


Japan Focus

9/7/10

Peter Lee

The Obama administration took office in 2009 determined to move beyond might-makes-right-makes-might unilateralism of the Bush years, and reassert America’s global influence as the most principled and powerful guarantor of rule-based multilateralism.

With respect to China, this approach was presented as a doctrine of “strategic reassurance”. Read the rest of this entry »

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