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Part II of the previous article is now up at Brooks Foreign Policy Review, here.
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China and the Global Recession: Part II – Relations with the United States
BFPR ANALYSIS
By Collin Spears, Chief Foreign Policy Correspondent,
Washington D.C. Bureau
In 2001, the Bush Administration characterized China as a “strategic competitor” to the United States. This may still be an accurate depiction of U.S. – Sino relations, at least as it applies to certain aspects of the multifarious relationship between the two nations. Financially, China and the U.S. have long been symbiotic. Despite the mutual benefits attained from this situation, there have been numerous points of contention, issues that have only been aggravated by the global financial crisis. The U.S. and China will have to find politically palatable ways to work though some of these differences, because the future economic viability of both nations depends on it.
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China and the Global Recession: Part I – The Domestic Situation
BFPR ANALYSIS
By Collin Spears, Chief Foreign Policy Correspondent,
Washington D.C. Bureau
The consensus of mainstream China analysts is that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is a unified entity that is destined to guide China into a new golden where it will enjoy global superpower status. This sanguine narrative is maybe challenged as the current global economic recession has served to elucidate the genuine fragility of China’s political economy. Stability in the immediate future, let alone, decades from the present, is not a fact to be taken for granted, but a likely possibility to be continuously observed and evaluated.
