IT IS never easy to deal with an emerging superpower.China may not justify that moniker quite yet,and perhaps it never will.But its rapid economic growth,its huge population,its demand for resources and its energetic diplomacy are posing delicate questions for politicians around the globe.China may not be another Evil Empire,but it is still a repressive one-party state:can it be changed,or must it merely be made room for? And will what China has termed its"peaceful rise"really be that,or could it become more confrontational?
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