The Coming Cool War With China
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June 3 (Bloomberg) -- Someone steals your most sensitivesecrets. Then, planning a face-to-face meeting, he says he wantsto develop “a new type” of relationship with you. At what point,exactly, would you start thinking he was planning to drink yourmilkshake?
Ahead of the first summit meeting between U.S. PresidentBarack Obama and President Xi Jinping of China on June 7, thetwo nations are on the brink of geopolitical conflict. As itsofficials acknowledge, China is a classic rising power, poisedto challenge U.S. dominance. In historical terms, the soleglobal superpower never gives up without a fight.