The D.C. Summit
Watching the picture-perfect pomp and ceremony surrounding President Hu Jintao’s state visit to Washington on January 18, 2011, was a dream come true. After writing four books that each, in it’s own way, advocates a Sino-U.S. partnership to lead the world through the 21st-century, and having given a talk earlier in the day advocating a Sino-U.S. partnership that is long overdue, I came to the realization that America and China have finally come to terms with each other.
Both president Barack Obama and Hu Jintao understand that a crisis in one will adversely impact on the other. What happens to one affects the other, and why shouldn’t the results be positive? “The China-US relationship is not one in which one side’s gain means the other side’s loss,” said Hu.
“What Deng Xiaoping said long ago remains true today. There are still great possibilities for cooperation between our countries,” Obama said.
The flawless formal highly choreographed red carpet-black-tie arrival, with welcomes from President Obama, Vice President Joe Biden and their wives, and a long line of Cabinet members and Chinese dignitaries was just the long overdue face gaining spectacular and respect that protocol conscious China and Hu craved and deserve. China wanted to see Hu being treated as the respected leader of a nation taking its place at the head of the global table.
What a difference to the snubs president Hu received during his 2005 and 2006 visits to the U.S. The 2006 arrival ceremony was marred by protocol blunders including an outburst from a Falun Gong protester.
The ceremonial pomp-filled 21-gun salute, with full honors and color guard welcoming ceremony ushered in a page-turning “new chapter” with a new play book for the “new era” in Sino-U.S. relations.
The mutual feel-good factor by Americans and Chinese towards each other seemed to overnight replace the mutual mistrust and is on a harmonious trajectory for the prickly growth of bilateral ties. Both countries have recalibrated their tone and direction of their ties. More than 50 percent of Americans and Chinese regard Sino-U.S. ties as “very important,” more than double the 2009 percentage. With the changing of the global political and economic landscape, Sino-U.S. relations now go well beyond the boundaries of bilateral ties and have global ramifications. China and the U.S. share many common interests and both sides must “work together to open a new chapter of co-operation as partners,” said president Hu. The repeated calls for broader cooperation as partners by both presidents was long overdue.
The last 30 years of relations were marked by continued exchanges and increased mutual understanding, Obama said, before adding that Hu’s visit serves to lay the foundation for deeper prosperity between their two nations in the next 30 years.
Both president Barack Obama and Hu Jintao understand that a crisis in one will adversely impact on the other. What happens to one affects the other, and why shouldn’t the results be positive? “The China-US relationship is not one in which one side’s gain means the other side’s loss,” said Hu.
“What Deng Xiaoping said long ago remains true today. There are still great possibilities for cooperation between our countries,” Obama said.
The flawless formal highly choreographed red carpet-black-tie arrival, with welcomes from President Obama, Vice President Joe Biden and their wives, and a long line of Cabinet members and Chinese dignitaries was just the long overdue face gaining spectacular and respect that protocol conscious China and Hu craved and deserve. China wanted to see Hu being treated as the respected leader of a nation taking its place at the head of the global table.
What a difference to the snubs president Hu received during his 2005 and 2006 visits to the U.S. The 2006 arrival ceremony was marred by protocol blunders including an outburst from a Falun Gong protester.
The ceremonial pomp-filled 21-gun salute, with full honors and color guard welcoming ceremony ushered in a page-turning “new chapter” with a new play book for the “new era” in Sino-U.S. relations.
The mutual feel-good factor by Americans and Chinese towards each other seemed to overnight replace the mutual mistrust and is on a harmonious trajectory for the prickly growth of bilateral ties. Both countries have recalibrated their tone and direction of their ties. More than 50 percent of Americans and Chinese regard Sino-U.S. ties as “very important,” more than double the 2009 percentage. With the changing of the global political and economic landscape, Sino-U.S. relations now go well beyond the boundaries of bilateral ties and have global ramifications. China and the U.S. share many common interests and both sides must “work together to open a new chapter of co-operation as partners,” said president Hu. The repeated calls for broader cooperation as partners by both presidents was long overdue.
The last 30 years of relations were marked by continued exchanges and increased mutual understanding, Obama said, before adding that Hu’s visit serves to lay the foundation for deeper prosperity between their two nations in the next 30 years.
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