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Article: Will Obama push China harder?(Barack Obama's foreign policy and United States-China relations)
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- The Christian Science Monitor
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- January 8, 2009
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Byline: Howard LaFranchi Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor
Washington -- The United States and China will mark 30 years of normalized relations this week when Deputy Secretary of State John Negroponte visits Beijing, highlighting strengthened and diversified relations between the world's superpower and its emerging giant.
Mr. Negroponte - standing in for Condoleezza Rice, who canceled her Asia plans to follow events in Gaza - will toast an evolution in relations under President Bush from confrontation to cooperation. But as the Bush years come to a close, the questions will be more about the future than the past: Can the positive trajectory ...