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Saturday, April 14, 2012

The view from China: the United States is no longer seen as “that awesome, nor is it trustworthy"

from the nyt...
China views the United States as a declining power, but at the same time believes that Washington is trying to fight back to undermine, and even disrupt, the economic and military growth that point to China’s becoming the world’s most powerful country, according to the analyst, Wang Jisi, the co-author of “Addressing U.S.-China Strategic Distrust,” a monograph published this week by the Brookings Institution in Washington and the Institute for International and Strategic Studies at Peking University.

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The United States is no longer seen as “that awesome, nor is it trustworthy, and its example to the world and admonitions to China should therefore be much discounted,” Mr. Wang writes of the general view of China’s leadership.

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“It is now a question of how many years, rather than how many decades, before China replaces the United States as the largest economy in the world,” he adds.

in an interview, the brookings representative was quoted as saying that there is an increasing belief on both sides that the two countries would be "antagonistic in 15 years"...

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