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=US/China Relationship; Why it's important=

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Rob
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The US/China relationship is important because China is quickly becoming a world power. The US is one of these and to stay in power as a world power, you must be able to co-operate with other world powers. Evidence that China is fast becoming a world power can be found in the fact that China employed 12 million new workers last year, compared to 8 million new ones in 2002. Another example comes from [|here] and I quote, "in September 2004, China sent a “special police” contingent to Haiti — one of Taiwan’s official relationships — marking Beijing’s first deployment of forces ever in the Western Hemisphere. " This is alarming because it shows just how strong and bold China is getting. If they had done that during the Cold War, the US would have declared war on them and we would have won. Today, with our economy so strongly intertwined with that of China (they are our third largest trading partner), I'm not so sure we would win. Another alarming tidbit is that China is trying to buy American property, which, once again shows how they are becoming a world power. If the US is able to cooperate with this new world power, we will have earned a useful ally. If not, then our power is going to go the way of the British. http://www.china.org.cn/government/central_government/2008-02/20/content_1243253.htm
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"Policies Stepped Up to Promote Employment." __China.Org.Cn__. 26 Apr. 2008 .

http://www.flickr.com/photos/sonosalvo/162254673/ By: Sono Salvo U.S.-China relationships have become strained over many issues in the past. One of the issues is the United States ability to maintain it’s status as an unchallenged World Power. Today, China is not a military challenger to the U.S. However, the power of China over the U.S. lies not with the military power, but with its economic power and globalization. One of the reasons for a close U.S. and China relationship is the amount of trade between the two countries. China is one of the most popular areas for US countries to outsource, due to its low labor costs and lack of power for the workers, thus making the Chinese and US economies linked, if one goes down, so does the other. Trade is a large reason for both China and the U.S. to want to have close economic ties with each other. China would want to have close economic ties with the U.S. because the U.S. is one of China’s largest trade members, with over 302 billion dollars of trade in 2007, followed by Japan with 236 billion, and Hong Kong with over 197 billion. U.S. imports from China have gradually increased by 10 to 20% in the past ten years. The U.S. would want to have close ties with China because of the same reason, trade. The U.S. gets most of it’s consumer goods imported from China were it is cheaper than most countries because its workers are paid so little to manufacture the goods. As you can see, the United States and China should keep close economic ties for many reasons. Websites- http://www.uschina.org/statistics/tradetable.html
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[|http://www.issues.abc-clio.com/Issues/Display.aspx?categoryid=70&entryid=913455&searchtext=china+and+united+states&type=simple&option=all&filterid= Bibliography:

**“US-China Trade Statistics and China's World Trade Statistics”.2008.US-China Business Council. 22 Apr. 2008< [|http://www.uschina.org/>.]**
====**Hastedt, Glenn Peter. "U.S. as World Power: Outlook." __Issues: Understanding Controversy and Society__. 2008. ABC-CLIO. 22 Apr. 2008 <[|http://www.issues.abc-clio.com>.]**====

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http://flickr.com/photos/webel/60739679/ By: [|Steve Webel] US senate has normalized trade with china with the passing of the Permanent Normal Trade Relations bill China is improving their military and making its nuclear power more advanced. China's military is going to pose a threat to Taiwan and eventually to the US military presence in Asia. One thing that the US is concerned about China's weapon sales to Iran and Pakistan some reputable sources have reported china to be selling missiles and wmd technology to primarily the middle east this is a reason to see the china Military as a threat and start to get them to side with the US. http://www.e-e-times.com/getting-'normal'/127290.html?ci=127290&g=g142625&k=US%20China%20relation&n=s&a=1193211132 "Getting Normal." 26 Apr. 2008 . http://www.flickr.com/photos/upton/1243046220/sizes/m/
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