China, U.S.: The Strategic Economic Dialogue as a Tool for Managing Relations

Austin, TX, May 23, 2007 — Stratfor’s Geopolitical Intelligence Report this week discusses the second of the planned biannual Strategic Economic Dialogue sessions between China and the United States in Washington. As the talks get under way, business and media attention is focused almost exclusively on two main issues: the China-U.S. trade imbalance and China’s undervaluing of the yuan.

The dialogue, however, is designed to integrate a much broader array of issues, moving beyond trade to the larger issue of how the world’s only remaining superpower deals with the rapid emergence of China on the international economic and political scene.

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