United States Deputy Secretary of State Robert Zoellick delivered a refreshingly candid speech in New York last Wednesday at a gala dinner of the National Committee on US-China Relations.I was expecting the usual self- deluding talk, with nonsense like “US- China relations are the most important bilateral relationship in the world and we must not demonize China.” How wrong I was. Zoellick, established what will be the tone of US-China policy for the rest of the second Bush administration, if not longer.
Zoellick aimed to address the most mind-boggling question: How does the United States deal with China’s rising power?