Behind the recent skirmishes between China and America the latest surrounding the Dalai Lama's visit to the U.S. lies a wide divide between the two nations over how they see themselves, each other and their place in the world.
The U.S. prefers China to be like Japan: economically powerful and politically cooperative but strategically dormant and militarily inhibited. Knowing that this was never realistic, the second best outcome for Washington captured succinctly in a...
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