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The United States and China

The United States and China have long eyed one another from across an ideological chasm that has, at times, appeared unbridgeable. Throughout the 20th century, domestic trends within each nation have diverged such that little common ground appeared to exist between them. Indeed, for much of the 20th century, Chinese isolationism reinforced a communist agenda that did not recognize key properties intrinsic to Western society; among them: religious freedom, capitalist business practices, and a generally individualistic disposition.

In this, a range of core cultural values in the United States and China simply do not concur, and in many cases, actually conflict. As a consequence, a fundamental tension plagues US-Sino relations, creating a situation that is puzzling for its many contradictions. The US, anxious to profit from the Chinese markets and resources, is no less eager to curtail those elements of Chinese social policy that it perceives to be inconsistent with Western conceptions of human rights (Weisberger 14). At root is a series of philosophical disputes that inform both domestic policy and international relations, and lead each nation away from the other.

By some accounts, however, this is no longer the case. In recent years, the formidable fatade of Chinese communism has begun to give way to sweeping international trends that promise economic growth and, ironically, religious zeal. The indomitable tide of globalization has penetrated the shores of China and encouraged a domestic agenda that is beginning to resemble that of the US more closely than ever before. The ideology of the age, globalization carries aloft visions of international prosperity and local integrity, and appears to encourage a return to religion. This idea, once representative of paradigm philosophical inconsistencies, appears today both plausible and inevitable, and China is one of many nations that have begun to incorporate capitalist elem...

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