From Time Asia (link):
After Easter, China’s president Hu Jintao will visit Washington to huddle with George W. Bush. And well the two of them might, for the Chinese-American relationship will decide the course of our century just as much as the hot wars with Germany and Japan, and the cold war with the Soviet Union, determined the fate of the last one.
Why throw China in with Germany and Japan, two countries that are now as aggressive as pussycats? Because all three exemplify the oldest and meanest problem of world politics: how to deal with rising powers.
See also “Chinese president to visit U.S. on boosting common ground” from People’s Daily and “Bush Sets Out Expectations for Talks with China’s Leader” from the Voice of America.
