Beijing stunned by aggressive American moves

November 22, 2011 15:58

A report from the South China Morning Post:

China will not confront the US or change its policies ahead of Xi Jinping's visit to Washington next year, political analysts say. Beijing has been caught off guard by recent US moves in the Asia-Pacific region, but analysts do not expect China to make major changes in its policies ahead of Vice-President Xi Jinping's trip to America next year.

Beijing has been well aware of the US diplomatic shift to Asia for a long time, with Barack Obama declaring himself America's first "Pacific President" two years ago in Japan.

But analysts said Beijing had not expected Obama to take a hard-line approach against China and confront it by raising territorial disputes in the South China Sea at last weekend's East Asia Summit in Bali, Indonesia.

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