US-China Relations - 150. page

People’s Daily published an article commenting on how China is conducting an advertising campaign on CNN to promote China. The same ad is also being displayed with high frequency in New York’s Times Square. The ad started on January 17, 2011, and will continue until February 14, 2011. 
 

The article’s author stated that this kind of national image promotion campaign is a long-term investment. “With this type of strategic effort, we can develop a good international environment for China to prosper, and create a reputation as a good ‘product-manufacturing country’ to support Chinese companies. These efforts are a strategic investment in advertising our national image and can generate enormous value." 

Source: People’s Daily, February 8, 2011
http://opinion.people.com.cn/GB/13871770.html

Every year for the three years that Obama has been in office, he has mentioned China in his State of the Union address. The number of times he brought up China has doubled each year, from once in his first address to four times most recently. He only casually mentioned China in 2009. In 2010, he declared that the “U.S. won’t accept second position.” In 2011, he admitted the reality of the U.S.’s declining status. The delicate changes in Obama’s outlook on China were clearly reflected in his three addresses.

Source: Xinhua, January 26, 2011
http://news.xinhuanet.com/world/2011-01/26/c_121027738.htm

Since 2005, Americans have admitted that they can’t prevent China’s rise. They have even realized that the U.S. needs China more than China needs the U.S. They have fewer and fewer cards to play. Thus, the U.S. must seek new strategies to hinder China’s rise and international expansion. 1) Regarding regional security, the U.S. is mobilizing its allies, and uses conflicts between China and its neighbors to establish allies to guard against the “China threat.” 2) In finance and the RMB exchange rate, it maintains pressure on China. 3) In the international media, the U.S. spreads the view that “China is arrogant” and uses various new versions of the “China threat.”

In this battle, China must maximally maintain the stability of its “strategic opportunity phase.” China should not act emotionally. It should remain calm and make no changes to cope with outside changes. The future of China-U.S. relations is totally dependent on how the two side’s compare in how much power they have. At present, China’s biggest advantage is its own development.

Source: Huanqiu, January 30, 2011
http://finance.huanqiu.com/roll/2011-01/1473479.html

According to an article in Qiushi Journal, economic strategy remains the heart of the U.S. overall long-term strategy, which is to transfer its domestic crisis to China. The economic strategy includes friction over the exchange rate, trade, agricultural produce, currency, resources, and energy. The exchange rate issue has always been the focus and is the make or break point. Political and diplomatic moves are designed to support the economic strategy. Politically, the U.S. uses human rights, climate, the China threat, and China’s "arrogance." Its diplomacy includes joining forces with the European Union and Japan and controlling China’s neighboring countries, thus encircling China politically. For the U.S. to re-enforce its military presence in the Northeast Asian region also supports its economic strategy.

Source: Qiushi, January 26, 2011
http://www.qstheory.cn/lg/zl/201101/t20110126_63559.htm

China’s military newspaper published an article by General Xu Guangyu on Hu’s visit to the U.S. It stated that during President Hu’s visit, both parties confirmed they would establish a cooperative partnership. “Per public opinion, this marks the beginning of the U.S. treating China as its global partner. For China, it carries pressure and responsibility – we have made achievements beyond the imagination of the outside world. Yet there are numerous subjective and objective problems and challenges. If we do well, the future will be bright and promising. If we do not do well, there will be twists and turns. As we empower our country and adapt to globalization, we must be more clear-minded and rational, calm but not servile, strong but not overbearing.”

Source: People’s Liberation Army Daily, January 30, 2011 reprinted at Huanqiu.com
http://mil.huanqiu.com/china/2011-01/1474089.html

Because of Hu Jintao’s visit to the United States, many have expressed concern for Gao Zhisheng, the lawyer who was ”disappeared” twice and cruelly tortured for defending Christians, political and religious dissenters, and Falun Gong.

On January 10, 2011, AP released an interview with Gao, taken before his second disappearance, in which he discussed his torture, including electric shocks to his genitals, near suffocation, and temporary blindness from cigarettes held close to his eyes.

In a speech given Friday, January 14, 2011, Secretary of State Clinton specifically mentioned Gao Zhisheng. At a congressional press conference on January 18, 2001, Bob Fu of ChinaAid requested that President Obama ask Hu Jintao to free Gao and let him come to the United States to be reunited with his wife and two children. Fu has been circulating a letter that Gao gave his wife, Geng He, before she and their children escaped to the United States. Gao is still missing. No one knows his whereabouts or whether he is still alive.

Sources:
Christian Newswire, January 20, 2011
http://www.christiannewswire.com/news/9101616001.html
Washington Post, January 10, 2011
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/01/10/AR2011011001287.html

According to an article in the International Herald Leader, there is not much room for the Sino-U.S. relationship to expand. The priority should be to manage, rather than develop, the bilateral relationship. The article states that there is no way whatsoever for China to satisfy the U.S. requests on the issues of RMB appreciation, global energy dominated by the U.S., or China’s military modernization. There is no misunderstanding between the two – what exists is truly that their interests are at stake. “What is important now is how to manage the fundamentals and major differences in the bilateral relationship, rather than to explore ways to further develop mutual understanding and common interests, so that these differences will not affect cooperation in other areas.”

Source: Xinhua, January 14, 2011
http://news.xinhuanet.com/herald/2011-01/14/c_13690481.htm

Yu Wanli, an Associate Professor of International Strategy Studies at Beijing University, wrote an article on possible changes in the U.S. policy toward China. As the Chinese government funds China’s universities, Yu’s view reflects the Chinese government position. In his article, Yu discussed how the U.S. is likely to stress universal values to both the Chinese people and the global community in order to intimidate China.                

Yu said that the U.S. will not stop its efforts to intimidate China on China’s core interests, including arms sales to Taiwan, the Dalai Lama, and Xinjiang.“ (It will) continue using the issues of democracy, human rights, and freedom of speech to deepen its influence over the Chinese people.” Furthermore, globally, “it is more and more clear that the U.S. is intimidating China through its allies, the multi-party system, and the system of universal values.”

Source: China Review News, January 10, 2011
http://gb.chinareviewnews.com/doc/1015/6/4/8/101564866.html?coluid=148&kindid=0&docid=101564866&mdate=0110005159