The best of rivals

摘要

"Over the course of the next several decades there is a good chance that the United States will find itself engaged in an open and intense geopolitical rivalry with the People's Republic of China." This warning by Aaron Friedberg, an American academic, in an article four years ago coincided with the views of many in the then Bush administration-in-waiting. One of them, the hawkish Dick Cheney, has been visiting China this week for the first time since he became vice-president. Last year he appointed Mr Friedberg as an adviser. But will the trip make him any more positive about where relations between China and America are heading?