Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20110116:18:01:00
Ever since richard nixon, american presidents have worked to integrate china into the international system. china for its part has seen its primary mission as economic development, and it has been cooperative, not competitive with the united states. the godfather of modern china, deng xiaoping directed beijing to adapt a strategy of humility and a sort of tacit alliance with washington in its external relations. so the grown-ups on both sides have been in charge and seem sensible. but there are new pressures in the two countries that are urging a more combative relationship. you only have to l...