Tuesday, February 14, 2012
Obama meets with China's leader-to-be
President Obama welcomed China's next leader at the White House, and set a tone for future relations between the US and China. Tomorrow, Xi will meet with congressional leaders on Capitol Hill and discuss a major policy address. Xi said the purpose of his visit was to strengthen U.S.-Chinese relations and build a "cooperative partnership based on mutual respect and mutual interests."
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Xi Ginping's confidence and personality as said I think will benefit this man. When a new man takes the chair of power he needs to observe past way and not only learn from them but improve. As said "eye to eye" isn't always going to be the simple case between China and U.S. relations. I'm actually glad to know that the meeting lasted longer than expected giving Obama a lot of emphasis on the importance of their relationship. I think Xi will be a good leader but may turn out to be a bit stubborn.
ReplyDeleteI think that it is a good thing that we are starting off a relationship with Xi before he takes office. China is an up and coming country and we are going to need to have a good relationship with them.
DeleteI agree with Liam that the meeting going longer is probably a good thing because they were probably able to get some good ground and relationship statues going.
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DeleteChina has way too much leverage on our country. We're so reliant on their manufacturing that I think Xi's visit was just a pleasantry. China can operate completely indepedent of US wishes because they know that we need them to keep making our stuff to prevent our Economy from collapsing. Of course, if our economy collapsed, so would China's, but I'm not sure if we pissed them off enough that they wouldn't go ahead and do it anyway. The US government needed a gauge on Xi's character to find out if he was capable of doing something that globally catastrophic. When you hear the horror stories about modern Chinese working conditions, it makes you wonder just how conscionable Chinese leaders really are and whether they would be willing to destroy our country even if it means destroying theirs.
ReplyDeleteIt's definitely a good sign that we're trying to build a stronger relationship with China. At this point, we don't really have an option to get along with them or not, considering our economy relies so heavily on them. But, as Jake said, its important that we avoid any sort of negative relationship with them. This absolute reliance on China should be a bit concerning...
ReplyDeleteThis was smart on Obama's part. As we learn in International Relations, China is and has been a growing power, and may within the next 50 years be on par if not more powerful than the US. We really rely on China for a lot of things, and the better relationship we have with them the better. Like Jake and Aidan said, any negative relationship could really hurt us.
DeleteThis is wonderful and all, but he was going to have to meet him at some point. I don't believe that it would have changed much because our relations with China have been good recently, since they have been keeping our country out of debt, but I do give Obama props for meeting with him, hopefully they played some b-ball to bond.
ReplyDeleteI dont really think this had THIS much significance, but yeah he did have to do it. We really do have to keep our relationship with China positive because of our massive dependence on them. I mean, without our trades with China i wouldnt have half the clothes in my closet, or any of my cool toys.
ReplyDeleteI personally think that this was a relatively significant event---I think that it is important to be on good terms with China. Although our relationship with China is already pretty good, I think that it is important to remind citizens of both the U.S and China that we can both rely on each other economically. I think that it is important that the U.S (a democratic country) and China (a communist country) are able to have a healthy relationship.
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