As China’s president Hu Jintao visits US president Barack Obama this week, they must be aware of how much rests on their shoulders. Both countries have strong suspicions of each other. Both dislike constraints on their own freedom. Both find some aspects of the other’s behaviour unacceptable. Yet both must also be well aware that what lies ahead is a lengthy and intense relationship. Technology and economics have made the world smaller than it has ever been before. Now China’s development is putting to an end the period of unquestioned western supremacy. East and west must co-operate, or perish.
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