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China urges change in U.S. policy to avoid friction
Visitors to Tiananmen Square shield themselves from the sun with umbrellas on a hot and hazy day in Beijing July 28, 2010.
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BEIJING |
BEIJING (Reuters) - The United States should alter policy to take account of China's role as a major player on the world stage if it wants to avoid friction and instability, a major state newspaper said on Thursday.
The commentary in ruling Communist Party mouthpiece the People's Daily followed the latest spat in Sino-U.S. ties, over what China views as unwarranted U.S. interference in a territorial dispute in the South China Sea.
While senior officials, including U.S. President Barack Obama, say they welcome a prosperous, flourishing China, good words must be backed up by actions, the newspaper said.
"If the United States cannot find a way of recognizing and accepting China's entrance on the world stage as a big player, relations will swerve up and down like a roller coaster," it said.
"This instability in relations will have a negative effect not only on bilateral ties but on the world, and that is not something anyone wants to see."
Obama started out well, it said, with his visit to China last year, but arguments over U.S. arms sales to Taiwan, Google Inc. and the value of the Chinese currency showed nothing has really changed in the United States.
"On the issue of how to co-exist with a rapidly developing China, Washington has in fact not thought things through in a calm manner."
It was wrong to think, as some experts in the United States believe, that China will be flexible on certain issues as relations between the two sides deepen, the commentary said, suggesting more discord to come.
"On cardinal questions of right and wrong, China has flinched neither in the past nor the present, and will not do so in the future," the newspaper said.
"It is impossible that when China's bottom line in reached there will not be a response. The state of Sino-U.S. relations directly impacts upon or even decides global peace and stability, especially in the Asia-Pacific region ... Future ties to a large degree hinge upon whether Washington can control its 'impulses'."
China, it said, was simply pushing back in the same way as the United States.
"'It is impolite not to reciprocate'," it added, quoting a classic Confucian text. "There is no lack of China experts in Washington who should fully understand the meaning of this."
(Reporting by Ben Blanchard; Editing by Emma Graham-Harrison and Ron Popeski)
“Obama started out well, it said, with his visit to China last year, but arguments over U.S. arms sales to Taiwan, Google Inc. and the value of the Chinese currency showed nothing has really changed in the United States.”
Wow, China is totally right, I mean the US is totally out of line for adhering to a 60 year old treaty to provide self defense for Taiwan, expect uncensored content on search engines for the Chinese people, and requesting that China stop artificially stifling it’s currency so as to have an unfair global trade advantage which depresses global economies…… Try again Chinese propaganda machine.
The Chinese are great at imitating the World Wide Federation’s pro-”wrestlers.” They bully, cry, complain, threaten, warn, and generally do their best after a dirty hit to plead for understanding. It is time to overthrow this fascist regime, this censoring, brutal, one party throwback to the Stalinist era, this user of cultural genocide, this oppressor of the Chinese, of those with courage who advocate for human rights, of Tibetans, and consider them, the fountain from which North Korea gets its life waters, the fountain from which every dirty tyranny such as in Burma, gets its encouragement. People’s Republic of China indeed. It is NOT of the people, it is NOT a republic, as that means it is democratic, and it is NOT “China,” as it holds and oppresses captive nations. Friction is the least of what we need to do. We cannot compromise with fascists.
Oh, sooo sorry to offend the great shining example to the world- uh, China.
Yah. Get a government, become a country that treats humans like humans instead of animals, then get back to us. Oh, and for reference- lead is not a food additive.
never mind politics with china…want to solve americas depression? quit buying all this cheap chineese crap that fills our retail establishments, tell china to keep their merchandise in their country. we need to bring manufacturing back to america. we are missing this key element of a sucessful economy. we will only fall deeper into the pit of poverty if action is not taken soon. the formula to a strong localized economy is fairly simple, aquiring raw materials, manufacturing of finished goods,warehousing and transportation of these goods to retail establishments. when one of these ingredients are left out of the recipie, disaster is enevitable. this is where we need to focus our efforts on. i’ll bet ‘tricky dick’ is rolling over in his grave for what has resulted from him establishing relations with china back in ‘72. they have infected us like a cancer,and we need to remove the cancer that is quickly destroying our economy!
Well leave to the Demcrap cowards of the USA Government if they back down because of this Chinese black mail. China, as a nation, lacks any kind of innovation and lives off of STEALING the intellectual property of everyone else. The main tenets of their culture is rife with theft, lying and cheating – a bankrupt culture for sure.
Slowly Slowly is how countries accumulate IP and enough weapons and cultural propaganda to take on the world. That is how the UK did it centuries ago, then America, then Germany (until America saved the world). Watch this space soon china will be building to much of the worlds stuff for the world to stop (like all addictions things normally hit the fan before they get better)
China is known to not play nice, they will start war (maybe not tomorrow but sooner than most would think), and it wont be a war with guns it will be based on debt. Where do you think most of the US government debt comes from…
a SIGNIFICANT chunk of your government is owned by a regime amassing an army to block you into a corner…
yet the world still buys from them. You have the ability to not buy china made.
The Chinese want to play with the big boys? With their US holdings, I’d say they’ve bought the right. Don’t like it? Stop shopping at Wal*Mart and be prepared to pay the true cost of things… like $50 for a T-shirt. There’s a price to pay for buying cheap goods: 1.) The loss of American jobs, and 2.) Losing the upper hand to China. Hell, they’re even investing in Solar and battery technology. We’re cutting education. It’s pretty obvious what the future holds.
Hmmm… you all sound so witty, but has anyone of you ever been to China? I doubt it… Probably the Chinese regime would be the best option for USA. At least it would provide a stable economy. Who cares about democracy if there has been no democracy in USA since G. Washington. Repressions? They are present in any country. What other objections you have? Seems like USA taxpayers go mad at any other country which receives help from the US government) God Save the President!
china is not a BIG player … its a BIG violator of Human Rights, by-force collecting TAX from billion of people and not serving them with highest standard … they should let it go … and respect human values not power
