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The US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton started her Asian tour on 21 May 2010. The first stop was Japan, where she only stayed three hours and fifteen minutes for a meeting with foreign minister Okada Katsuya and Prime Minister Hatoyama Yukio. No significant agreement was reached between Japan and the USA. Thereafter, Clinton [...]
Posted: September 20th, 2010 under Sino-Japanese Relations, US-China Relations.
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On 3 May 2010, the Pentagon disclosed the number of the nuclear warhead. The total number is 5,113 nuclear warheads currently deployed. It seems to everyone that the announcement is unprecedented because it had been top secret in the USA. Yet, most scholars know the number of nuclear warheads in American stockpiled for years. If [...]
Posted: September 17th, 2010 under US-China Relations.
Comments: 72
After months of diplomatic problems (i.e., selling arms to Taiwan and Obama’s meeting with the Dalai Lama) between China and the US, the White House finally dispatched two senior officials: Deputy Secretary of State James B. Steinberg and Jeffrey A. Bader, National Security Council’s senior Director for Asia to Beijing in March 2010. The Chinese [...]
Posted: August 31st, 2010 under US-China Relations.
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After nearly two months of investigation regarding the South Korean Navy patrol craft Cheonan tragedy where 46 crew members were killed, the South Korean investigation team sponsored with technical support from the UK, the US, Sweden, Canada, and Australia, concluded that the naval ship was sunk by a North Korea torpedo on 20 May 2010 [...]
Posted: August 26th, 2010 under Korean Issue, US-China Relations.
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A new Washington Post-ABC News poll indicates that the majority of Americans believe that China will be the leading superpower in 21st century. In terms of the economy, 41 percent of Americans believe that this century is the Chinese century, while 40 percent of Americans continue to believe that this is the American century. In terms [...]
Posted: August 24th, 2010 under US-China Relations.
Comments: 74
When the democrat controls in the White House last time during Clinton Administration, the anti-China rhetoric was out control in the end. Even the congress published COX REPORT against China on Capital Hill by accusing to spy American nuclear secrets. China-bashing was costless. When the 44th president took the power in the White House this [...]
Posted: March 12th, 2010 under Chinese Culture, US-China Relations.
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Interestingly, Time (November 23, 2009) magazine published Bill Powell’s article, titled “5 Things the U.S. Can Learn from China” before Obama landed in the Middle Kingdom. The five things are: be ambitious, education matters, look after the elderly, save more, and look over the horizon. All five items are fundamental bases of the Chinese society [...]
Posted: March 9th, 2010 under US-China Relations.
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If an alumni makes a donation to a university in the West, it would rarely make the international news unless it was an exceptionally large donation. When Zhang Lei, the founder and managing partner of Hillhouse Capital Management in Beijing gave $8,888,888 to the management school of Yale University (where he finished a master degree [...]
Posted: March 6th, 2010 under US-China Relations.
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When President Obama’s Asian trip finished in the last country – South another Asian nation was nervous. That is no other – than India. When the 44th President visited both Japan and China, he did not mention the name of Indiain his speech at all. However, after Obama returned to the White House, Indian Prime [...]
Posted: February 13th, 2010 under India, Obama, US-China Relations.
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On 27 October 2009, former Prime Minister of Singapore, Lee Kuan Yew, received the lifetime achievement award from the US-ASEAN Business Council in Washington D.C., the first award of its kind awarded to a former prime minister. Lee Kuan Yew made his speech at the 25th anniversary gala dinner in the council. However, Lee’s speech [...]
Posted: February 11th, 2010 under US-China Relations.
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It is unusual for the Prime Minister of Japan to leave a guest of state during their visit. However, when the US President Barack Obama delayed his visit Japan for 24 hours due to domestic affairs, this is exactly what happened. The Japanese prime minister left for the APEC meeting in Singapore. Since WWII, it [...]
Posted: January 10th, 2010 under Japan, US-China Relations.
Comments: 89
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin visited China during October 12-14, 2009. Both China and Russia singed 12 agreements. According to the Chinese media, one of these agreements was that two countries would notify the other of ballistic missiles and the launch of carrier rockets. Usually, no country wants to sign a mutual notification of ballistic missiles [...]
Posted: December 17th, 2009 under Sino-Russian Relations, US-China Relations.
Comments: 102
As New York Times (24 September 2009) describes the United Nations Climate Change Summit in New York, both China and the United States produce 40 percent of the global greenhouse gas emissions. In the climate summit, the world needs the leadership from China and the US. Hu Jintao, China’s President, offers that China would reduce [...]
Posted: November 27th, 2009 under Chinese Politics, Obama, US-China Relations.
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After the US won its intellectual property case involving music against China in WTO, the American government has agonized whether to impose special 421 safeguards against Chinese tires. In a politically sparked debate, Obama faced a dilemma based upon promises made to unions during his campaign for the presidency. As a result of these promises, [...]
Posted: November 13th, 2009 under Obama, US-China Relations.
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According to the Global Times (3 August 2009), in July China once again rejected in Hong Kong the American proposal seeking cooperation to control North Korea if the emergent case (i.e., the collapse of the dictator regime) occurred in North Korea. This is the third time that China has rejected the idea of the “Chimerica” [...]
Posted: November 12th, 2009 under Korean Issue, US-China Relations.
Comments: 86
On 15 July 2009, Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, delivered an American foreign policy speech at the Council on Foreign Relations. About half-hour speech has been provided major foreign policy of Obama Administration. “America will always be a world leader as long as we remain true to our ideals and embrace strategies that match the [...]
Posted: November 2nd, 2009 under US-China Relations.
Comments: 111
Ichiro Fujisaki, Japanese Ambassador to the U.S., offered a direct apology to a group of the Second World War veterans taken prisoner by Japanese imperial army in the Philippines. “We extend a heartfelt apology for our country having caused tremendous damage and suffering to many people (Japan Times).” A meeting of the American Defenders of [...]
Posted: October 31st, 2009 under Japan, US-China Relations.
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In the beginning of August, former President Bill Clinton visited North Korea asking for the release of two American journalists: Euna Lee and Laura Ling, who were sentenced 15 years in a labor camp. On 11 August 2009, the Chinese newspaper (Hong Kong Economic Journal) published a fantastic article (the author is a research associate [...]
Posted: October 30th, 2009 under Korean Issue, US-China Relations.
Comments: 100
After the 44th President was sworn into the White House, some new facts regarding 9.11 were revealed globally. Recently, an extremely interesting academic article was published in journal – The Open Chemical Physics Journal (vol. 2, 2009, pp. 7-31) on the issue. The nine authors from European countries and the United States: Niels H. Harrit, [...]
Posted: October 25th, 2009 under Obama, US-China Relations.
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On 18 June 2009, the United States Senate (111th Congress 1st Session) passed a resolution which formally made an apology to African-Americans for racial segregation. “Apology for the enslavement and segregation of African-Americans- The congress – acknowledges the fundamental injustice, cruelty, brutality, and inhumanity of slavery and Jim Crow laws; apologizes to African-Americans on behalf [...]
Posted: October 24th, 2009 under Japan, US-China Relations.
Comments: 81
On 23 May 2009, the United States was going to file a case to WTO against China. According to Ron Kirk, U.S. Trade Representative, who made the announcement, China has continued to restrict exports of rare metals, including zinc, tin, tungsten, antimony, bauxite, coke, fluorspar, indium, magnesium carbonate, molybdenum, rare earths, silicon, talc, and yellow [...]
Posted: October 17th, 2009 under US-China Relations.
Comments: 118
According to the Chinese media, the Chinese President Hu Jintao inspected a new Chinese nuclear submarine in 1996. The news reflects the new type of submarine 094 or 095 has become part of the Chinese navy. However, during the 60 anniversary of the Chinese navy parade in Qingdao, China did not display its new 094 [...]
Posted: October 16th, 2009 under US-China Relations.
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On 16 May 2009, Barack Obama nominated Jon Huntsman, Governor of Utah, as the next ambassador of China. Jon Huntsman is moderate Republican who speaks fluent Chinese. Obama’s move is extremely smart because he has eliminated a number of his enemies who might run in the presidential race in 2012. Besides Hillary Rodham Clinton, Jon [...]
Posted: October 4th, 2009 under US-China Relations.
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On 20 May 2009, China and EU held the 11th China-EU Summit. At the meeting, Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao rejected the idea of G2. “Some say that world affairs will be managed solely by China and the US. I think that view is baseless and wrong…. Multi-polarization and multilateralism represent the larger trend and the [...]
Posted: September 24th, 2009 under US-China Relations.
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In the beginning of June (June first), Treasury Secretary Tim Githner went on his first foreign trip – China – to reassure Chinese leaders that America is committed to long-term fiscal discipline. In other words, he kept asking the Chinese to keep buying US bonds in order to maintain the recovery of American economy. Interestingly, [...]
Posted: August 30th, 2009 under Sino-Japanese Relations, US-China Relations.
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Chief Executive Donald Tsang was so happy when the Chinese State Council (9 April 2009) decided to introduce a pilot program for using renminbi (RMB) or yuan for cross-border trade settlement in five Chinese cities, such as Shanghai, Guangdong, Shenzhen, Zhuhai, and Dongguan (CCTV). This will promote economic and trade ties between China and neighboring [...]
Posted: June 13th, 2009 under Renminbi, US-China Relations.
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Despite a number of nations warning North Korea repeatedly for months, Pyongyang launched its rocket claiming that it was a satellite. Japan was outraged and pushed for new sanctions at the U.N. Security Council with new resolution. At the Prague Castle gate, the young president of the United States claimed, “North Korea broke the rules [...]
Posted: June 7th, 2009 under Japan, Korean Issue, Obama, US-China Relations.
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President Barack Obama added some 17,000 American troops to the flagging war in Afghanistan in February 2009. Since Kyrgyzstan is going to close the Manas Airport in Central Asia, the U.S. needs to obtain logistical support. The question is where will it come from. If one looks a map, the answer becomes more apparent. All [...]
Posted: May 20th, 2009 under Obama, US-China Relations.
Comments: 115
The U.S. automobile market had long been world’s largest. On 3 February 2009, automakers reported their sales in January that the U.S. sold 565,976 cars and light trucks and the consumers in China bought 790,000 vehicles (Phoenix TV). For the first time, China passed the U.S. in terms of automobile market. In April 2009, Association of [...]
Posted: May 5th, 2009 under US-China Relations.
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After Barack Obama became the 44th President on 20 January 2009, the bandits in Japan and China have different analyses of Obama’s inaugural address. As everyone knows, Obama’s speech does not contain a famous phrase like John F. Kennedy’s inaugural statement “Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do [...]
Posted: April 22nd, 2009 under Japan, US-China Relations.
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The young president of the United States has stayed in his office less than a month; one of major challenges that might face to the US. Surprisingly, it is not the Middle East problem. On 3 February 2009, President Kurmanbek Bakiyev of Kyrgyzstan informed the Obama administration that Kyrgyzstan will close a U.S. air base. The [...]
Posted: April 6th, 2009 under Obama, US-China Relations.
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Charles W. Freeman III, head of the Freeman Chair in China Studies at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), published the Freeman Report titled “Heeding the Lessons of Failure” (December 2008). In the report, Freeman claims that China has never embraced the Washington Consensus by pursuing development goals within the framework of the [...]
Posted: April 1st, 2009 under US-China Relations.
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Two interesting articles appeared in the newspaper regarding Obama’s foreign policy when Barack Obama was taking the oath in front of millions people on January 20, 2009. One is written by former diplomat Henry Kissinger (Independent 20 January 2009), and the other is written by Japanologists Richard Samuels and James Schoff (International Herald Tribute 22 [...]
Posted: March 25th, 2009 under Japan, US-China Relations.
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On October 14, 2008 Asif Ali Zardari, President of Pakistan, arrived in Beijing for a four-day state visit seeking $4 billion to $6 billion in aid from China so that Pakistan would not default on its payments. This is not the first time that Pakistan sought China’s help. In 1996 China provided $500 million in [...]
Posted: February 20th, 2009 under US-China Relations.
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While George W. Bush was busy persuading American lawmakers to support the administration’s $700 billion Wall Street bailout, President Hugo Chavez of Venezuela arrived at Beijing for a three-day visit (before going Russia, and heading to Belarus, France, and Portugal) in last fall. In return, the Chinese promised to launch the VENESAT-1 satellite (also known [...]
Posted: February 17th, 2009 under US-China Relations.
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According to the Wall Street Journal on November 7, 2008 (online edition) the United States made a proposal to China to seek cooperation if 67-years-old Kim Jong Il, North Korea’s leader passes away. For the USA, a power shift in North Korea could send hundreds of thousands of refugees fleeing over its borders, and might insecure [...]
Posted: January 12th, 2009 under Korean Issue, US-China Relations.
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During the global financial chaos, Australian Prime Mister Kevin Rudd stated that China could help strengthen global financial stability. “The current instabilities that are concentrated in the U.S. should not be taken as a signal to China to retreat from integration and globalization (Japan Times, October 7, 2008).” Similarly, Larry Summers, the former US Treasury [...]
Posted: November 27th, 2008 under Financial Chaos, US-China Relations.
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It was not long ago when scholars used the words “G2” in the 1980s to describe two “superpowers” – the United States and Japan. Times have now changed. In 2008, an article (“A Partnership of Equals,” Foreign Affairs July/August 2008) written by C. Fred Bergsten used the phrase “G2” to describe new superpowers – the [...]
Posted: October 13th, 2008 under US-China Relations.
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