The US and China: neither friends nor rivals

The World

As Washington prepares for a visit from Chinese President Hu Jintao this week, we take a look at what lies ahead in the shifting relationship between superpowers. Should we fear the “waking dragon”? We’re joined by Gideon Rachman, chief foreign-affairs commentator for the Financial Times and author of “Zero-Sum Future: American Power in an Age of Anxiety,” and Simon Tay, was an Asia Society 2009 Bernard Schwartz Fellow and is Chairman of the Singapore Institute of International Affairs. He is also the author of “Asia Alone: The Dangerous Post-Crisis Divide from America.”

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