Cambridge, Mass. - Since President Obama took office, Chinese-US relations have enjoyed a honeymoon period. This has led many to assert that the US and China will be able to shoulder the troubled world together, perhaps even forming their own Group of Two (G-2).
While such an arrangement would bring economic and strategic benefits, we should not view the relationship through a relatively simplistic and overly ambitious "G-2" prism, where we are perceived as allied saviors. The more realistic approach to handling the Chinese-US relationship is using the Confucian "middle way."
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