Washington Watch: President Hu Jintao Talks About Trade And Security In Washington

This week, President Hu Jintao of China will discuss with President Obama in Washington. The agenda for discussion included various kinds on both sides of the Pacific. Economics and Safety The risks posed by these problems are increasing day by day.

　　 us-china relations Friction is not new, but friction has intensified over the past 18 months. One of the explanations for growing tensions is that some media experts and government policy-makers are examining the relationship with rapidly rising China through the coloured three prism. When the United States is facing slow economic growth, high unemployment rate and huge debts (many of which are owed to China), China continues to maintain high growth after the financial crisis and global economic recession, which naturally makes Americans more anxious and has changed the recognition of relations between the two countries.

The two countries have distinct boundaries and respect for geopolitics and economy, but now the boundary is blurred, and economic frictions are becoming more and more likely to cause geopolitical differences. Too many American papers have written that China has achieved economic prosperity for a long time at the expense of the United States, and said that China is now signaling that China urgently demands aggressive U.S. changes in its past policies.

Although the fashionable view is that China has become an offshore base for manufacturing in the United States, the United States has exchanged large amounts of mortgage debt for a large number of problematic Chinese products, but in fact bilateral trade relations have brought great benefits to the two countries. Nevertheless, Americans are more likely to be concerned about friction. Of course, some complaints about China's trade and economic policies are reasonable and worth the effort to solve them (for example, through the WTO's ruling), but some dissatisfaction is false or untenable, because the fact that they complain is that either China has not violated the agreement or the United States itself has also broken the agreement.

When the US government asked China to substantially raise the RMB exchange rate, the Chinese government was very disgusted with the question of how much the exchange rate would go up. Such an answer naturally made the US media and American politicians angry and made Sino US relations tense. But we need to know that China is a sovereign state, and its government, like the United States, is pursuing its own interests maximization. We should understand from the standpoint of realism that the policies pursued by the US and the Chinese government will never be the same, so the US and China policies will never be the same. Emphasizing and developing common ground and minimizing differences are the cream of diplomatic and political means in the US and China. These tactics must continue to run through the US foreign policy toward China.

Although the adjustment of the US policy toward China is not necessarily a bad thing, a more aggressive US policy is unnecessary and unnecessary. Even if the geopolitical environment has changed, the US policy toward China should remain unchanged, because the fact is that globalization means interdependence and interdependence requires cooperation rather than conflict.