The Call: US and China on a collision course

06.04.2009

Some want to see the US and China form a comprehensive political and economic partnership, an alliance of pragmatism that provides workable solutions to key international problems: the global economic slowdown, climate change, collective security, and other issues. Those who make this argument ignore the reality that China remains a developing country with serious internal challenges ahead. This will sharply limit the Chinese leadership's eagerness for taking on new international burdens, however triumphalist their rhetoric becomes. > View article