Shortsighted is the one thing that custodians of the U.S.- China relationship can’t afford to be. And for more than three decades, American and Chinese leaders have taken the long view, recognizing that their relationship need not replay that of pre-World War I Great Britain and Germany, or of the U.S. and the Soviet Union in the Cold War. No doubt this is what Xi meant when he called for “a new type of great power relationship.” You don’t have to subscribe to the Great Man theory of history to hope that Xi and Obama are great or even good enough to build it.
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