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Dalam koleksi: The Economist (http://search.proquest.com/) vol. 403 no. 8783 (May 2012), page 27.
Topik: International Relations; Politics; Activists; Attorneys; Summit Conferences

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"An acquired taste, much of it bitter" was how the late Percy Cradock, a British foreign-office mandarin, described China, a country he spent a lifetime studying. The American officials who this week negotiated in Beijing over the future of Chen Guangcheng, a blind and much-persecuted Chinese legal activist, must know just what he meant. Rarely has diplomatic triumph turned into possible debacle so swiftly. Much rides on the ability of China and America to salvage something from the wreckage. As Hillary Clinton, America's secretary of state, said this week, the two countries cannot solve all the world's problems. But unless they co-operate, no global problem is solvable. Yet as she was speaking, in Beijing at the opening of the two countries' fourth annual "Strategic and Economic Dialogue" (S&ED), the world's most important bilateral relationship was under strain on any number of fronts. At best, mutual strategic mistrust seems too deeply ingrained to eradicate. At worst, the possibility of a catastrophic breakdown cannot be ruled out. Mr Chen's decision to seek protection at the American embassy in Beijing brought back to the fore in bilateral relations an issue that both sides hoped had been parked.

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