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Article: symposium.(relations between China and the United States)
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- Insight on the News
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- April 30, 2001
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Q: Would a modernized Chinese military threaten the United States?
Yes: China's new weapons growth could be deflected by a U.S. military buildup in Asia.
As a battered American surveillance plane is being stripped on a Chinese runway, its American crew being held hostage for further American concessions, it is time we abandoned the pretense of normal relations with China. Despite the claims of the probusiness types that democracy follows markets, China remains today a one-party dictatorship and home to one of the worst human-rights records worldwide. How should we deal with it?
Throughout the seventies and eighties, China untiringly accused the ...