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MESSAGE TO PRESIDENT OBAMA:” WHO IS MORE DEPENDENT ON THEOTHER, AMERICA OR CHINA?”It does not matter whether the future prediction of Orville Schell (1) or MartinJacques (2) is on target about U.S. China relation. In fact the future prospect maybe some where in between. Our concern should be how to avoid another cold warthat is looming by our unnecessary confrontation of China in arm sales to Taiwan,critical of China by siding with Google Internet dispute with China and yourcoming meeting with Dalai Lama. American public needs to be in formed aboutthese anatomizing tactics through public debates.Orville Schell is singing a familiar tune of China and U.S. will only get closer.Martin Jacques is predicting a likely scenario that Chinese culture may dominatethe future world. Though nobody can be sure of the future, Jacques is closer to thetarget on the following counts. Contrary to U.S. media reports,1) Chinese Harmony cultural values have more universal values than ourproclaimed democracy values.2) Chinese people and government is getting enough information through theInternet to move towards modernity for now. Her current success in economics andmodernization are good indications.3) China is a cultural state and not a political state (3). Her government willcontinue to have the mandate to govern if her performances justify the governmenthas public confidence. Political reform must be accomplished according to her ownmove towards modernity.Grid lock or not, U.S. government must focus on the important issues to promoteharmony between the two great nations. The world cannot afford anotheravoidable cold war. America by continuing the present path of confrontation, willbenefit neither country nor the world. We need a public debate, but our press mustbetter prepare our citizens. Your leadership is very essential to guide our nation inthe direction towards world harmony.WHO IS MORE DEPENDENT ON THE OTHER, AMERICA OR CHINA?The America media overwhelmingly agrees that China is more dependent on usbecause of our large market. In reality, the American public needs to be betterinformed. Our media 20

century mentality is not doing America any favor. Haveit occurred to us, ultimately Chinese market is capable to be four times bigger thanours? The developing world is awakening; their combined market will be 10 timesours. We are the most powerful nation in the world because we are ahead of developing nations in technology and modern management not because of oursuperior cultural values. All ancient cultures have laudable cultural values that iswhy they developed. Larry Summers, your eminent economic adviser said, “The

most momentous 21

Century development will be the rise of the developing worldcatching up with our technology and modern management”We are the greatest military power because we have invested consistently more thanthe whole world combined in our military industrial complex. We are successful ineconomics because our business corporations are competitive not because we havethe exclusive rights to technology and innovations. Deng Xiaoping said “It does notmatter whether it is black or white cat as long as it catches mouse”. Economicsuccess does not depend on political ideology, success is more a factor of appropriatemanagement. Now that modernization of the developing world is out of the bag, wewill face competition whether it is Brazilian, Russian Indian or Chinese cats.In the transition to a multilateral world, China as a developing and consumerproduct manufacturing country has more to offer to the developing world in theconsumer products that we all want. Our sales of superior armament have a limitedand smaller market. Barring instability in China which we are eager to agitate,China has a long way to grow in her own and the friendly developing market.Japan and the four little tigers caught up with us in the last Century because theyfocused on consumer products and not arms sales.

With similar culture and in the same way, China and South East Asia will also catch up with us in time. So soon wewill be more dependent on China and Asia in the 21

Century.

1) Why China and the U.S. Will Only GetCloser

ByOrville Schell| NEWSWEEKPublished Dec 30, 2009Issues 2010It looks, at first, like a classic story of imperial rise and fall: the West's confidence in its institutions andeconomies has been badly shaken by the financial crisis, while China has increased its global role andbasked in the vindication of its more state-dominated development model. Having grown accustomed todominance, many Americans now find China's boom unsettling. After all, two states like this are historicallyexpected to clash.Yet that clash is not guaranteed. What happens next will depend in large part on how Washington leads.China and the United States could easily become antagonistic. But things could unfold much more positively—if leaders on both sides recognize how many interests they share.That's not to say it will be easy. The two countries share a lot of historical baggage. For a century and a half,China smarted over its domination by the West, leaving it with a deep sense of humiliation. But for yearsnow, China's economic miracle has been easing its insecurity. As confidence has grown, China has begunabandoning its tendency to define itself as oppressed and exploited. Beijing has also begun working hard toreassure the planet that its debut on the world stage will be harmonious. As a result, China is now in theright frame of mind to begin fashioning a new sort of partnership with the West.Creating such a relationship will still take enormous forbearance. For China, it will mean vaulting over itsrevolutionary ideology and resisting the temptations of hypernationalism. And for the United States, it willmean recognizing that, even though its supremacy is waning, China need not become an adversary.

Americans must come to terms with the reality that their own vaunted democratic system has often failedthem—by letting the economy run off a cliff, for example—and that China's one-party system, which is ableto gather information, formulate policies, and then effect them quickly—clearly has its advantages.China and America also have plenty to build on. The two countries have an unusually strong sentimentaland historical bond. Thanks to a century of U.S. missionary activity in China, many Chinese admireAmerica's generosity, entrepreneurialism, and fair--mindedness—even if they often resent U.S. power andself-righteousness.More important, the two countries now face, and must work together to solve, two critical questions: how toconstruct a new financial architecture and how to solve climate change. Take the economy: the U.S. relieson China to fund its debt, and China relies on the U.S. to buy its goods. While Americans have started tosave more and Chinese to consume more, this codependency is not about to end. So without Chinaparticipating in the rebuilding of a new post-crisis economic architecture, both countries could run intoserious trouble. And they know it.Climate change is even more urgent. The U.S. and China together produce almost 50 percent of the world's-greenhouse-gas emissions. Unless they find a way to stop hiding behind each other and start dealing withthis problem, it will not matter what all the other well-intentioned states do. Everyone will suffer.So the challenge is not whether the U.S. and China can draw closer, but how to get them to recognize thatthey already are intimately intertwined. Fate has bound them together, and they must find effective ways tocollaborate. Fortunately, this is the very definition of common interest. And there is nothing like commoninterest—and a looming sense of common threat—to form the basis of a strong, productive relationship.

Schell is Arthur Ross director of the Center on U.S.-China Relations at the Asia Society.

2) No Chance Against China

Google's defeat foretells the day when Beijing rules the world.

By Martin Jacques | NEWSWEEKPublished Jan 16, 2010From the magazine issue dated Jan 25, 2010

The blunt truth is tthat most Western forecasters have been wrong about China for the past 30 years. Theyhave claimed that Chinese economic growth was exaggerated, that a big crisis was imminent, that statecontrols would fade away, and that exposure to global media, notably the Internet, would steadily underminethe Communist Party's authority. The reason why China forecasting has such a poor track record is thatWesterners constantly invoke the model and experience of the West to explain China, and it is a falseprophet. Until we start trying to understand China on its own terms, rather than as a Western-style nation inthe making, we will continue to get it wrong.The Google affair tells us much about what China is and what it will be like. The Internet has been seen inthe West as the quintessential expression of the free exchange of ideas and information, untrammeled bygovernment interference and increasingly global in reach. But the Chinese government has shown that theInternet can be successfully filtered and controlled. Google's mission, "to organize the world's informationand make it universally accessible and useful," has clashed with the age-old presumption of Chinese rulersof the need and responsibility to control. In this battle, there will be only one winner: China. Google will beobliged either to accept Chinese regulations or exit the world's largest Internet market, with seriousconsequences for its long-term global ambitions. This is a metaphor for our times: America's most dynamic

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