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The Big Issues in U.S.-China Relations: The Silent Debate 
By John Gershman, Asia-Pacific Editor, Foreign Policy In Focus
http://www.foreignpolicy-infocus.org/commentary/chinaissues.html

In a presidential election in which foreign policy occupies a less 
than central role, it may come as no surprise that 
U.S.-China relations are virtually absent from the debate. As 
LA Times columnist Jim Mann observed regarding the
presidential campaign and U.S. policy toward China, "The country 
ought to be having a debate, but instead our political leaders
act as though they have all been afflicted by an epidemic of lockjaw." 
Indeed, there appears to be a more public debate in China about 
U.S.-China relations than in the United States.

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Tim McGivern
Foreign Policy in Focus
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