NEW YORK - No one can say that 2010 was a rosy year for dialogue between Beijing and Washington. The eyes of the world were against the republic, guilty of violating human rights and repress dissidents like Liu Xiabao, awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. The U.S. president, Barack Obama - he was awarded the Nobel, the year before - has repeatedly said that the republic has to change course.During his visit to Washington on his Chinese counterpart, Hu Jintao, gave some opening, talking about the "universality of human rights", even if they are to be taken into account "national differences." The same joint statement by the two leaders at the end of the bilateral meeting states that "U.S.
and China have reaffirmed their commitment to the promotion and protection of human rights while continuing to have significant differences on these issues." Some progress, however, has been done, at least according to the American press, which stores 2010 as the annus horribilis of relations between China and the United States and declares that 2011 opens under better auspices.
"For the first time in months, it seems that the two leaders have at least started to read the same book," said an analysis of the New York Times. For the first time, for example, Hu has expressed concern over North Korea's programs nuclearei usually defended by Beijing. However, the wish list, both for Americans and for the Chinese, remains long.
The Americans, for their part, would like the Chinese currency, the yuan was revalued, and would also like more assurances on the nuclear arsenals of the People's Republic. Here again, the joint statement promising cooperation, but we all know, on both sides of the Pacific, it will be difficult to move from words to deeds.
Not surprisingly, during the meeting between Hu and parliamentarians in Washington have been quietly raised the number of nodes. And leaders of both chambers - respectively John Boehner and Harry Reid - have politely refused to attend the dinner in honor of the Chinese president, branded by the President of the Senate as "a dictator".
On the editorial page, Nicholas Kristof - an expert on Chinese affairs who won a Pulitzer Prize writing of the facts Tienamen Square in 1989 - avoid hasty judgments, painting a complex picture that goes to make forecasts for the next two years, when both powers to decide their new leader.
"Here in America - the paper reads - views on the republic are split between those who embrace the panda (" China is great!) And those who attacked ("China is evil!"), Although the truth lies between this and this ying yang. Kristof is one of the examples is the role of China in supporting "rogue states" like North Korea, Iran, Myanmar, Sudan.
The People's Republic, according to Kristof, supports these countries, "much less than what Americans believe." Not only that, "in recent times (Beijing) has played an important role both in Sudan and North Korea." The editorial, however, ends with a dark prophecy. He recalls a recent speech of him who will, in all likelihood, the future president Xi Jinping, who has used somewhat harsh tone against the Americans, who are accused of having used biological weapons during the Korean War the last century.
"To tell the truth - Kristof writes - Xi seems to admire the United States has just sent her only daughter to Harvard, but perhaps feels the need to join the Nationalist People's Republic." Like him, many in Beijing are to line up against Washington, so that the reporter provides the next rise of the "hawks" of the East.
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