From McClatchy News/China Rises:
Anybody trying to plumb Hillary Clinton’s thinking on China after the several hours she spent Tuesday at her confirmation hearing before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee will surely be disappointed.
She said almost nothing about what is arguably the most important bilateral relationship the United States has in the decade ahead.
I stayed up late watching the hearing (Beijing is 13 hours ahead of Washington), and just got a hold of a transcript to see if I had missed anything. There’s almost nothing there. Clinton included barely five sentences on China in her prepared remarks:
“China is critically important as an actor who will be changing the global landscape. We want a positive and cooperative relationship with China, one where we deepen and strengthen our ties on a number of issues and candidly address differences where they persist. But this is not a one-way effort. Much of what we will do depends on the choices China makes about its future at home and abroad.
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