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This 6 page paper traces the development of normal relations between the U.S. and China and argues that China is a friend to the U.S. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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normalization of relations is what the U.S. sees as Chinas dismal record on human rights. Despite this, the paper argues that China is more friend than foe to the U.S.
Discussion Conventional wisdom says that much of the credit for the normalization of relations between the U.S. and China goes to President Nixon, who, despite being one of our worst
presidents, did in fact deserve credit for taking the initiative in opening relations between the two countries. Certainly there is some truth in this, as Nixon is still recognized as
one of the architects of the U.S./China structure that exists today. But giving all the credit to Nixon is to cut China out of the equation completely, and that gives
only a partial picture of the reality. One of the things that is difficult for Americans to grasp is the great age of the Chinese civilization. China was flourishing when
the U.S. was at its most primitive and from the perspective of the Chinese, "the relationship has been extremely brief" (Spence, 2005, p. 44). In fact, it wasnt until the
reign of Emperor Qianlong of the last Chinese dynasty that relations were established and when they were, "Americans sometimes behaved admirably. Other times, they were a nuisance, or worse, a
menace" (Spence, 2005, p. 44). Ones opinion of American actions depends on perspective: the U.S. can be seen as benevolent "in its development of Chinese hospitals and modern medicine"; on
the other hand, its behavior is destructive when one considers that it disseminated "partisan religious tracks by American evangelists to such people as the leader of the Taiping Rebellion" (Spence,
2005, p. 44). Or it can be seen as ambivalent, when in the 1900s U.S. leaders "urged the Chinese toward a more republican form of government, which quickly descended into
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