{"id":2594,"date":"2011-01-19T12:18:55","date_gmt":"2011-01-19T20:18:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fogcityjournal.com\/wordpress\/?p=2594"},"modified":"2022-06-28T06:05:36","modified_gmt":"2022-06-28T14:05:36","slug":"chinas-hu-arrives-to-look-around","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fogcityjournal.com\/wordpress\/2594\/chinas-hu-arrives-to-look-around\/","title":{"rendered":"China’s Hu Arrives to Look Around"},"content":{"rendered":"

File photo courtesy ChinaDaily.com<\/p><\/div>\n

By Danny Schechter<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

January 18, 2011<\/p>\n

On the eve of the Chinese President\u2019s visit to the United States, and the intense speculation about his intentions \u2014 and ours \u2014 I found myself in a dark room at the Anthology Film Archive in the East Village watching a spectacular documentary by Chinese filmmaker Zhao Liang called \u201cPetition.\u201d<\/p>\n

It’s about the tens of thousands of people with grievances who seek redress in China at offices ostensibly set up to resolve their problems.<\/p>\n

The right to petition is guaranteed by the Chinese Constitution \u2014 yes, China has a Constitution, but it is unevenly enforced like our own. Falun Gong first tried, but failed, to bring its human rights claims to a Petition office like the bureaucratic centers shown in the film as do a small army of individuals who every day, bravely \u2014 sometimes fanatically — insist it is their human right to be heard.<\/p>\n

(In Falun Gong’s case, they were outlawed and systematically repressed for more than a decade with a large cost of lives.)<\/p>\n

Listen to the description of \u201cPetition\u201d: \u201cSince 1996, Zhao has documented the \u2018petitioners\u2019 who come from all over China to make complaints in Beijing about abuses committed by their local authorities. Gathered near the complaint offices, living in most cases in makeshift shelters, the complainants wait for months or years to obtain justice.<\/p>\n

\u201cPeasants thrown off their land, workers from factories which have gone into liquidation, small homeowners who have seen their houses demolished but received no compensation, they pursue justice with unceasing stubbornness, facing the most brutal intimidation and most often finding that their hopes are in vain.\u201d<\/p>\n

Before you put this down just to the authoritarianism and insensitivity in China, remember the song \u201cbefore you \u2018cuse me, take a look at yourself.\u201d<\/p>\n

Think of all the Americans who get nowhere fighting their City Halls or battling denials of claims by health insurance companies or foreclosures by banks. Think of the vast growth in poverty and the persistence of high unemployment. Think of the millions of Americans behind bars.<\/p>\n

We don\u2019t even have a petition office, which I\u2019m sure must resolve some issues even if the film didn’t show that!<\/p>\n

Our systems may be different but some of the top-down ways our rulers operate are the same. Now, our two governments are about to sit down with each other to discuss common problems and stubborn differences.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe U.S.-China summit this week could rank among the most pivotal in history,\u201d writes Leslie Gelb who went from the New York Times to the Council on Foreign Relations to the appropriately named Daily Beast.<\/p>\n

\u201cPresidents Barack Obama and Hu Jintao can either find fresh ways to work out increasing differences, or they can settle for friendly gasbag rhetoric that will bow to their mutual and mounting hawkish pressures. But failure to compromise on tough economic and security issues will have dangerous consequences for both leaders.\u201d<\/p>\n

Elite journalists tend to worry more about the tenure of elites then the well-being of the people. Yet, when you think about U.S.-China relations, it\u2019s not just governments that are wrestling over policy.<\/p>\n

For example, whenever Washington summons up the courage to criticize China\u2019s dismal and repressive human rights record, Beijing fires back with the scorecard of U.S. police abuses and mass incarceration. They report regularly on Obama\u2019s backpedaling on human rights here.<\/p>\n

(And know well that the summit is being carefully stage-managed by lower-level officials on both sides who have already come up with some compromises that each side can use to show how flexible and responsive they are. Each side must save face after all.<\/p>\n

In case you haven\u2019t noticed, the world has changed with China\u2019s economy growing faster and doing better \u2014 at least for now \u2014 than ours.<\/p>\n

Money represents real power in this world, and ours seems to be declining while theirs is in the ascendancy.<\/p>\n

China\u2019s President Hu Jintao is sending contradictory signals. In one conciliatory statement, he called for the U.S. and China to work out their mutual problems. He sounded reasonable and friendly.<\/p>\n

“There is no denying that there are some differences and sensitive issues between us,” Hu told American newspapers, “We both stand to gain from a sound China-U.S. relationship, and lose from confrontation.”<\/p>\n

At the same time, the Chinese are freaking out Wall Street and its cadre of henchmen in Washington by questioning the future of the dollar as the world\u2019s reserve currency.<\/p>\n

Even as China\u2019s investments in America\u2019s bonds and other financial instruments have become essential for our well-being and perhaps China\u2019s as well, there are many in Beijing who don\u2019t like the dependence on an American system that has lost them money and independence of action.<\/p>\n

All countries have their own interests although the United States likes to pretend that everything we want is in the world\u2019s interest. Washington\u2019s PR may be better but the U.S. global image is severely tarnished by wars and the WikiLeaks disclosures.<\/p>\n

The U.S. has been pressing the Chinese to revalue its currency for years. The Chinese often sound as if they will \u2014 but, in the end, they haven\u2019t because to do so would hurt their economy and spark more unemployment.<\/p>\n

Now Congress is getting into the act to add pressure on Beijing. AP reports, “Three U.S. senators announced plans Monday to renew their effort to penalize China for what they term currency \u2018manipulation,\u2019 on the eve of a state visit by Chinese President Hu Jintao.<\/p>\n

“Our message to President Hu is, ‘Welcome to America, but we want to make sure we have a fair trading system,'” said Michigan Senator Debbie Stabenow, who joined fellow Democrats Charles Schumer and Bob Casey in the announcement.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe bill to be introduced in the new Congress would \u2018vigorously address currency misalignments that unfairly and negatively impact US trade,\u2019 the three said in a joint statement.”<\/p>\n

China will not be moved by this pressure move. They don\u2019t like being bullied and have their own grievances with Ameican economic policies including U.S. cases filed against China at the World Trade Organization that they view as invalid and protectionist, as sops used for domestic political considerations.<\/p>\n

The fact is that all of these get-China maneuvers will not achieve what most Americans want: more jobs.<\/p>\n

Writes Harvard Law Professor Mark Wu, it \u201cis unlikely that a stronger renminbi would bring many jobs back home. Instead, companies would most likely shift labor-intensive production to Vietnam, Indonesia and other low-wage countries.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd in any case many high-skilled jobs will continue to flow overseas, as long as cheaper talent can be found in India and elsewhere. Only in a few industries, like biomedical devices, would a stronger Chinese currency combined with quality issues tempt American companies to keep more manufacturing at home.\u201d<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, China is well aware of how to “win friends” in the U.S., as Reuters reports. Deals do it.<\/p>\n

“The Chinese government kicked off a four-day U.S. trade mission on Monday by signing six deals in Houston with undisclosed U.S. companies worth $600 million, according to Chinese state media reports.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe deals came a day before Chinese President Hu Jintao arrives in the United States for a visit being billed as the most important U.S.-China summit since Deng Xiaoping’s visit to Washington 30 years ago.”<\/p>\n

The future of our relations is not just dependent on what the leaders say or agree on at summits. China is wary of U.S. military power encircling them. They are being forced to spend more money than they want to on naval ships and stealth planes.<\/p>\n

This is a country that grew up with Mao\u2019s dictum that \u201cpolitical power grows out of the barrel of a gun.\u201d<\/p>\n

As the Telegraph noted recently, \u201con virtually all the main issues that separate the two nations, (China) seems intransigent and uncompromising. The sense of threat is heightened by the fact that, while America is gripped by economic, social and political self-doubt, the Chinese have never been more certain of their ascendancy.\u201d<\/p>\n

It may be that both countries are shakier than we think. There may be no economic recovery in the United States for five years while some Hedge Funds fear, \u201cChina is a bubble close to bursting.\u201d<\/p>\n

Reports another article in the Telegraph, \u201cThe world is looking to China as a springboard out of recession – but some hedge funds are betting the country’s credit and growth levels cannot be sustained.\u201d<\/p>\n

So far, neither Washington nor Beijing has realized the apocalyptic projections of their many critics. Both states still pay lip service to their ideal, but both can be unraveling.
\nA fancy State Dinner will not bridge the gaps that separate the two countries and \u201cpaths of development,\u201d as the Chinese say.<\/p>\n

The U.S. says it wants more democracy in China but officials like Tim Geithner are upset by the debates taking place there, and pine for the days when they could deal with a dictator like Mao or Deng who, as the New York Times explained, \u201ccommanded basically unquestioned authority.\u201d<\/p>\n

Our leaders prefer dealing with that type of authority \u2013 and wish they had it here.<\/p>\n

Back in Beijing, in the shabby Petition Villages where Chinese citizens soldier on in their fight for justice, or in this country where our citizens are frustrated and angry with an economic crisis that appears to have no end, no one will expect much from this summit in faraway Washington where diplomatic dances produce kabuki plays filled with smiles but no real changes.<\/p>\n

News Dissector Danny Schechter blogs on Mediachannel.org<\/a>. His latest film, \u201cPlunder The Crime of Our Time<\/a>,\u201d treats the financial crisis as a crime story.
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