Most analysts believe that US President Barack Obama’s foreign policy in the four years of his second term will be preoccupied with the Asia-pacific region and the perceived threat posed by China.
Indeed, presenting China as the No 1 global challenge to US strategic and economic interests is by no means a novel trend in the US political discourse. In fact, since the end of the Cold War, China has been introduced to the US public as the enemy of the 21st century. Although the Chinese government has since embraced capitalism as an economic system, Washington remains sceptical. China’s poor human rights record, its totalitarian regime and conservative culture have helped portraying it as the anti-thesis of western political and social values
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