From The Associated Press
China is uneasily anticipating a bumpy road in relations with the United States now that the Democrats’ victory in midterm elections has placed one of Beijing’s most ardent critics in charge of the House of Representatives.
Speaker-elect Nancy Pelosi climbed the Democratic Party ranks in Congress savaging China for its human rights abuses. She opposed awarding China normal trading relations throughout the 1990s and giving Beijing the 2008 Olympics, seeking to deny the country apparent U.S. approval for its behavior.
With the 66-year-old Pelosi now in a more powerful public pulpit, China is expecting more critical treatment.
“This old woman has a great bias against China, possibly creating some static in China-U.S. relations,” Jin Canrong, an America watcher at Renmin University in Beijing, said in a report Wednesday on Sina.com, one of China’s most popular Internet portals.[Full Text]
