报摘：必须同床 难免异梦

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BBC Chinese, Nov. 13, 2009.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/zhongwen/simp/china/2009/11/091113_press_week45.shtml

My comment:
(a) I missed this article days ago and read it this afternoon. Following that, I read the article that BBC referred to:

Peter Foster, Barack Obama and Hu Jintao: can these unlikely bedfellows ever share the same dreams?  President Obama's visit to Beijing next week will test how far China has really come, says Peter Foster. Telegraph, Nov. 13, 2009.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/china/6559094/Barack-Obama-and-Hu-Jintao-can-these-unlikely-bedfellows-ever-share-the-same-dreams.html

(b) The concept that US and China are strange bedfellows is not new. At least Economist had a cover story on Oct. 22, 2009 that appeared prior to the telegraph article. See the lead article of that series:

China and America | The odd couple; America should be much more confident in its dealings with its closest rival. Economist, Oct. 22, 2009.
http://www.economist.com/displayStory.cfm?story_id=14699593
(The illustration in this lead article WAS the cover of that issue.)

(c) According to this telegraph article, "strategic reassurance" is what US demands China to provide. See the quote below:

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Amid so many conflicting signals, it seems reasonable to ask "What does China want?" And America hasn't ducked the question, pressing the country's leaders in private and in public, to give "strategic reassurances" about their intentions. Mr Obama's vice-Secretary of State, James B Steinberg, recently described the "core bargain" that the US needs to strike with China: "Just as we and our allies must make clear that we are prepared to welcome China's 'arrival'... as a prosperous and successful power, China must reassure the rest of the world that its development and growing global role will not come at the expense of the security and well-being of others."
-----------end of the quote

(d) This is surprising. For the past several days, I read Western news media, including VOA Chinese, and "strategic reassurance" seems a feel-good slogan, bones that are not fleshed out.
(e) Indeed, I recall this op-ed:

Kelley Currie, The Doctrine of 'Strategic Reassurance; ' What does the Obama formula for U.S.-China relations really mean? Wall Street Journal, Oct. 22, 2009.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704224004574488292885761628.html

Ms. Kelley Currie's profile in Project 2049 Institute, a Washington, DC-based think tank:
Project 2049
http://project2049.net/who_we_are_currie.html

Her State Department appointment was in the George W. Bush administration. Naturally, Mr. Randall Schriver is President and CEO of the Institute.

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发信人: choi (choi), 信区: Salon
标  题: Re: 报摘：必须同床 难免异梦
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Mon Nov 16 12:53:40 2009, 美东)

I browsed (print edition of) New York Times 24 hours ago, read the first
seven paragraphs of the front-page report, thought it was sugary--even
fawning to China, and skipped to other reports. This morning, I went through
yesterday's paper, inadvertently spotted "strategic reassurance," read more
to learn about it, and completed the whole report. Basically, the NY Times
report reinforced what Telegraph said days ago--and then some.

Helene Cooper, Michael Wines and David E. Sanger, China's Role as Lender
Alters Dynamics for Obama's Visit. New York Times, Nov. 15, 2009.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/15/world/asia/15china.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=strategic%20reassurance&st=cse

The relevant portion started with "One hint of the Obama administration抯
new approach came in a speech this fall by James B. Steinberg" and the next
four paragraphs.

【 在 choi 的大作中提到: 】
: BBC Chinese, Nov. 13, 2009.
: http://www.bbc.co.uk/zhongwen/simp/china/2009/11/091113_press_week45.shtml
: My comment:
: (a) I missed this article days ago and read it this afternoon. Following that, I read the article that BBC referred to:
: (以下引言省略...)

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