How China, an Emerging Superpower, Will Test the Obama Administration
Obama may also find resistance if he presses his calls for China to boost domestic consumption, change the way it uses energy, and allow its undervalued currency, the yuan, to rise.
But, like Bush, he appears to embrace the view that China's cooperation will be needed on a gamut of international issues: trade, restoring economic growth, addressing climate change, fighting terrorism and nuclear proliferation, and prodding states like Sudan and Myanmar to treat their citizens better.
What is less predictable is how China's Communist Party will continue to meet the rising expectations of an increasingly vocal population. It will have to contend with rising unemployment—and perhaps social unrest—amid the economic slowdown. And looming in the background, as always, will be the question of when and how political pressures will return to challenge one-party rule over such a dramatically changing society.
Obama may well find the Chinese more focused on their own problems than the world's.
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Reader Comments
China is a best friend of the united states
The two nations are great people in the world ,whose responsibilities are to serve population domestically and internationally. The good relationships between the two countries will benefit the whole world. Cooperarion denotes everything useful for each.
Global expansion feeds domestic growth
Historically, global expansion, militarily & economically, is the most most used method by superpowers to feed domestic growth and development economically. Asean countries & U.S will have to tighten their alliances and stand against the initial sneaky attempts by China to impose its military and economic will on others during this global economic crisis.
Harmony in the world
Where is the thought or opinion from? It is from your surrounding, from your learning and being educated. Is the capitalism perfect? It still has a lot of problem, including economy, society etc! Is the communism the worst? It has been changing with more and more values accepted by the world. More and more people are concerning the enviroment on the earth, the problem is how can the world be united as one and what kind of social system can make everyone in the world living peacefully and happily. Can the capitalim make it real? Thinking about its problems!! A growing and being responsible China is welcome by most of the people in the world, but it is also doubting, censuring even creating difficulties by someone in the world. We, as a civilian, need a peaceful world, and hope to live in a riched country or make our own country being riched with our own hands.
Hopefully, one day we can live in a harmonious world, we love each other and help each other without any hostility.
Alan
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