英媒：习近平美国之行将面临挑战

choi

BBC Chinese, Feb 8, 2012
http://www.bbc.co.uk/zhongwen/si ... ping_us_visit.shtml

Note: The report cites
Simon Tisdall, China's Mr Xi goes to wary Washington; Increasing US assertiveness could mean tough times ahead for Beijing's would-be masters of the universe. Guardian, Feb 7, 2012.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commen ... na-washington-visit
("The year of the dragon, just begun, may mark the moment when the aura of inevitability surrounding China's rise as leading global superpower is punctured, if not wholly dispelled")

my comment:
(a) Minxin PEI, China's Trapped Transition; The limits of developmental autocracy. Harvard University press, 2006.
http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674027541
(b) Except the quotation, the Guardian report says little that we do not know already. there is no need to read it.