China U.S. Spy Plane Trade

The collision demonstrated the Cold War-like mentality that still exists between the U.S. and China, including a stubborn refusal to show humility on both sides, paranoia, and fear. There are good reasons for such feelings on both sides. On the one hand, the U.S. pilot felt that the plane was being harassed by the Chinese pilot, and reaffirmed the validity of U.S. officials refusing to offer an apology for an unprovoked attack. The Chinese pilot, on the other hand, has been lionized by his government and called a protector of China’s seas and skies. Chinese and U.S. officials sharply disagree on U.S. policy to monitor the flight zone where the U.S. and Chinese planes collided. As Thomas and Liu (26) note “The two pilots and the two nations-collided. Exactly what happened is the subject of a dispute that could badly strain the already rocky relations between the world’s sole superpower and the Asian giant”.

After the collision, Chinese President Jiang Zemin insisted the U.S. must “bear full responsibility”

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e Relations is imperative not only for U.S. trade purposes, but for improving the religious freedom, living and working conditions of the 1.2 billion Chinese” (Schafer 20). The Chinese are slow to make concessions to the U.S. because for the past two decades the Chinese have had fairly unrestricted access to the U.S. market. Because of this, the trade negotiations between the U.S. and China are basically a one-way negotiation, because the Chinese must make the majority of concessions to improve trade relations and benefit the U.S. by opening China’s enormous market. Many U.S. politicians and officials are offended by what they view as China’s upper-hand in trade relations over the past two decades. In 2000, China became the country that could boast the largest trade deficit with the U.S. “The Commerce Department reported last week that the U.S. trade deficit in 2000 was the highest ever recorded, as imports exceeded exports by $369.7 billion. China overtook Japan as the country boasting the largest trade surplus with America, thanks largely to electronics, textiles, apparel, and other goods” (Kurlantzick 45). The Chinese view trade as extremely important because foreign growth has allowed the agrarian giant to begin modern
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