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February 10, 2010

U.S.-China Conflict Story Overblown

Nina Hachigian, World Focus

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The news coverage of the U.S.-China relationship is getting more hysterical by the day.

The Washington Post last week ran an editorial accusing the Obama Administration of spending its first year "going out of its way" to "cater" to Beijing. Moreover, the editorial concluded, this approach backfired, and now China is more aggressive than ever, "busting with hubris," and testing to see how far it can push the new U.S. president.

The Economist's coverage was nuanced, but its cover this week shows a giant smoking dragon looming over a tiny Barack Obama, who appears to be pleading for a rational chat.

The New York Times has run a series of pieces suggesting the Administration is kowtowing to Beijing, and Robert Kagan and other conservative commentators accuse the...

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