Obama, too, tried to stress that this was not an anti-China policy. “We’ll seek more opportunities for cooperation with Beijing, including greater communication between our militaries, to promote understanding and avoid miscalculation,” he told the Australian Parliament. “With most of the world’s nuclear powers and some half of humanity, Asia will largely define whether the century ahead will be marked by conflict or cooperation, needless suffering or human progress.”12 Beijing was having none of it. Yes, there was cooperation with the United States at many levels, including finance and
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