Monday, October 25, 2010

Pressing China, U.S. Lines Up Allies on Issues Like Currency - NYTimes.com

"WASHINGTON: The Obama administration, facing a vexed relationship with China on exchange rates, trade and security issues, is stiffening its approach toward Beijing, seeking allies to confront a newly assertive power that officials now say has little intention of working with the United States.
In a shift from its assiduous one-on-one courtship of Beijing, the administration is trying to line up coalitions among China's next-door neighbors and far-flung trading partners to present Chinese leaders with a unified front on thorny issues like the currency and their country's territorial claims in the South China Sea."

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