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the power relationship between China and
the world and particularly between US

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and China

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has really shifted and some very
dramatic way

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you all set in

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when deng xiaoping arrived at Andrews
Air Force Base

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outside Washington in January 1979

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this country was just emerging from a
long revolutionary deep freeze

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no one knew much about this 5-foot-4
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Chinese leader but in 1979

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he knew exactly what he wanted better
relations

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with the US he and President Jimmy
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appear to be serious about resolving
differences am

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United States of America and the
People's Republic of China have agreed

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to recognize each other

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and to establish diplomatic relations

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and again where the person 1979

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0 I remember very vividly when

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go shopping went to Houston

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and we all went out to a rodeo I mean
here is done shopping he walks into the

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serene and everybody sing

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country-western song and up gallup so

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tax assessor cheerleader type cowgirl

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and put up ten-gallon hat on his head

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and the crowd just one not

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okay here's theater here's permission

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for both countries to you now say it
okay to

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to get along it's okay to to have good
relations with each other

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a body language between deng xiaoping
and Carter

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0 I just on the trip in 1979 but
subsequently was incredibly

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a few shoveling perceptive and warm

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right now we have a much shorter and
cooler

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more aloof kind leadership interaction

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at a meeting between President Barack
Obama and she Jim Hague

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in June 2013 she suggested

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trying to recapture some of the old
carter deng magic

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when he expressed his desire see the two
countries

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form a quote new kinda big power
relationship

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Shin Shin guy why should he implied that
each country

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should accept the other as it is the
idea never really caught on

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but this Sept here was jimmy carter

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man who would help set the US china
relationship in motion

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back again in Beijing when jimmy carter

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was going back named by me to come along
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I'll be really interesting to see how he
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received and if the chinese really did
100 reestablish

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a kind of a warm I'm in the relationship

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when Carter arrived back in Beijing the
Sept his first stop was people's

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University

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we found ourselves thrust into the
middle of a forum on Global Finance

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one more the endless business
conferences

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now proliferating in China because the
subject is safe

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only after a forgettable addresses by
the university president

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and a former UN trade investment
specialists from Argentina

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was carter able to present short talk

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followed by a single question watching
this former US President

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be treated so offhandedly highlighted
how the power relationship between the

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two countries

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shifted it's now not only the West that
has well

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indeed China is expected to soon surpass
the US

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GDP %uh the two dynamic elements in the
world today the US

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trial and China is on the rise and

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some people think US isn't something
that the state of decline

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remains to be seen although Carter had
met

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four times before with Xi Jinping on
this visit he met neither with him

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North Premier League coach I'll which
seemed odd

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because if they really do want better
US-china relations

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why ignore the man would once done so
much to improve

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the Chinese moreover and unceremoniously
band one invited member of carter's

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delegation

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from speaking at a forum in the Great
Hall of the People

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carter himself soon learned his various
host organizations

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and cancelled or reorganized several
events

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and the carter center meeting for its
young American and Chinese scholars

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forum on us-china relations program was
moved off the chart on campus

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and into a hotel the high point of
Carter's trip

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was to be a banquet in the Great Hall of
the People a cavernous

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tone like edifice thrown up by not
people

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in 10 months during a great leap forward
in 1959

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its Vasai laws are calculated to all

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and over while the dinner for Carter was
disappointingly flat

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it was hosted by vice president
Miranshah

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who gave a short speech that had none at
the actively friendly town

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would you characterize meetings
thirty-five years ago

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as we age minutes see if half empty
tables

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a Chinese professor whispered to me that
president she just days earlier

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had met with a zimbabwean President an
international pariah

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Robert Mugabe calling him an old friend

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the Chinese people only respect very
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he went on to say but she was actually
in the Great Hall of the People

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toasting Malaysian supreme head of state
Abdul Haleem was ordained Shaw

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at the very moment of our dinner but she
didn't stop by the carter dinner

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to say a word I found it so depressing I
laughed

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just walked out after the banquet one

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Jimmy Carter left beijing I look through

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six or seven papers not a single article

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not where the state controls the media

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that's never an accident the overall
effect is a visit

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was to make visitors feel the
impossibility

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making real contact at one point

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I heard from a source close to him the
carter was upset enough to consider just

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packing up

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and going home you know when it comes to

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big leader Colt or the Chinese don't

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make mistakes what you see is what you
get and it usually means something

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well and the question is what does it
mean this is not to say that China would

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not love to have better relations with
the US

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but on its own terms to compound the
standoff

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our diplomatic officials in the White
House and the State Department

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relatively little interesting experience
in China

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and are distracted by many other urgent
problems elsewhere

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we have moreover a president possessed a
Ruger cool manner himself who has so far

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been unable to warm up to his
counterpart

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Xi Jinping also seemingly a very
self-contained

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reserved man with an awful Nick Maddox
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Xi Jinping first thing he did when he
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he said I have a dream %uh jungle mom

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the Chinese dream not your dream

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%uh artery the China dream is an ideal
launched by she

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that is now emblazoned on billboards bus
stops and byways

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throughout the country and essentially
place to china's historically your name

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well power respect global standings

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what it does not contain

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is any aspiration toward the Western
conception and liberal democracy

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humanistic values with the chinese seem
to be saying

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without being too explicit they've
always been masters a Mandar action

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is that they will now be reckoned with
on their own terms not ours

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%uh like a turn on this is the world's
new reality

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