From Economist.com: A relationship reconsidered, but the problems of North Korea and Taiwan still rankle
“China”, wrote Condoleezza Rice when George Bush was first running for the American presidency, “resents the role of the United States in the Asia-Pacific region“. During a visit to China as part of an Asian tour in her new role as secretary of state, she diplomatically avoided such bluntness, remarking instead that America and China shared common interests in regional and global stability. But on two of the region’s paramount security issues, North Korea and Taiwan, Ms Rice did not find the Chinese all that helpful.
