is not its lack of democracy or any intelligence aid to Iraq (this has been going on for decades) or its backing for the dodgy despot of Belarus. I am not sure it is even its recent attempts to defend Iran in the UN. What has really rattled the US government is the fact it has signed a long term trade deal with the Chinese that look like preventing the energy crunch that the Bush administration was hoping to use to curtail the rise of China as a global economic and political superpower.
http://www.newsday.com/news/local/longisland/politics/ny-wopipe224671265mar22,0,4905013.story?coll=ny-lipolitics-printOne can not help wondering whether the sudden deterioration in Sino-Japanese relations and the announcement of the cancellation of new yen loans to China is not unconnected to this event.
http://today.reuters.com/business/newsarticle.aspx?type=tnBusinessNews&storyID=nT72021&imageid=&cap=I expect the relationship between the two global power blocks to be headed downhill fast from now on. It is not going to be a pleasant ride.
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