From lastampa.it:
After the London summit between two presidents, American Barack Obama and Chinese Hu Jintao, a flirtatious honeymoon has sparked between the two countries.
The U.S. and China are finding common ground regarding the economy and ways to cope with the economic crisis. They discussed methods to join hands in Iran, Afghanistan, and the Middle East. On North Korea, they basically hammered out a solution: If Pyongyang shoots its missile, America will go to the U.N. to ask for sanctions, and China will support them. They skipped difficult issues of human rights and Tibet to underscore the reciprocal pragmatism.
Not incidentally, on April 2, the day after the summit, the official Xinhua news agency boasted to its domestic audience, “Sino-American collaboration is moving up to a higher level.”[1]
However, it is no mystery that a bigger problem is hovering over the heads of the two presidents who are driving to improve ties. The Chinese political system is not simply unpalatable to the American public: The lack of democracy strikes a deeper chord in Western sensibility and culture—something that no Western politician, no matter how pragmatic or cynical, can ignore.
