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The Trade Surplus: Will China, Like Garbo, Continue to Plead: "I Vant to Be Alone?"

An enjoyable article by Alan Wheatley: China and the "Garbo Defense." Indeed, what economic policy toward China will the Obama administration adopt? Any at all?

"In bad times everybody talks more about financial cooperation, but the reality is that in bad times everyone wants to take care of himself first," said Shi Yinhong, an international security professor at Renmin University in Beijing.
"There is a great deal of interdependence, but built into that interdependence there are many potential conflicts," he said.

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