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‘Protracted Negotiations’ Solution to U.S.-China Tensions?

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Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi (L) and U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton shake hands at the U.S. Department of State on Jan. 5, 2011, in Washington, DC. Clinton has drawn criticism for statements prioritizing the economy over human rights in U.S. dealings with China.

A new report from the University of Virginia outlines a series of largely conciliatory measures U.S. leaders should consider in order to improve relations with China, calling for the U.S. to treat China as an equal power and advocating “protracted negotiations” between the countries in a bid to enhance predictability and trust.

The report is the product of a January conference at the university’s Miller Center of Public Affairs of former and current business executives, government officials and scholars. The conference was led by Adm. Joseph Prueher, former U.S. ambassador to China and former commander of the U.S. Pacific Command, and included Timothy J. Keating, another retired admiral, David L. Cunningham, Jr, president of the Asia-Pacific region for FedEx Corp., and James Shinn, National Intelligence Officer for East Asia at the Central Intelligence Agency and a visiting professor at Georgetown University.

Among the report’s recommendations for improving bilateral ties: The U.S. “needs to get its fiscal house in order” in order to maintain its credibility, reevaluate its long-standing policy toward Taiwan, enhance Chinese-language learning for U.S. students, and work with China to approach negotiations as equals and demonstrate “respect and deference – instead of acrimony.”

The report seems aimed at U.S. policy makers, so it’s perhaps understandable that most of the suggestions apply to the U.S. Yet its contents seem at times to lean curiously toward placing the responsibility for problems in the U.S.-China relationship on the U.S. side, and seems to place the burden of improving U.S.-China relations largely on the shoulders of U.S. leaders. It describes economic, political and military relations as fraught with mistrust. The U.S. has “mistakenly treated their relationship with the Chinese as they did their relationship with Soviet communists and this has damaged the security relationship between the countries,” according to the report.

The recommendations aren’t politically easy. Along with reexamining U.S. ties to Taiwan, the report says the U.S. needs to consider relaxing its stance on human rights: “In order to move forward, the U.S. might need to recognize that the human rights issue might be deferred or slowed until the economic issues have been set.” While China continues to get slammed on human rights issues in Congress, the White House has noticeably toned down its own human rights rhetoric in recent years, on occasion explicitly depicting economic issues as the higher priority—and earning some criticism in the process.

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Mr. Prueher is no stranger to negotiating with the Chinese government: As ambassador in 2001 he spearheaded complicated talks with Beijing over the release of the crew of a U.S. EP-3 spy plane after it made an emergency landing in Chinese territory following a collision with a Chinese fighter jet that left the Chinese pilot dead. The U.S. won the crew’s release after Mr. Prueher gave Beijing a delicately worded letter — referred to by some as “the letter of the two sorries”– that expressed regret without apologizing.

So Mr. Prueher must know that negotiating with China’s government can be difficult, not least because Chinese officials frequently aren’t very transparent. But the report only hints at that when it says “U.S. and Chinese leaders must practice speaking to each other in direct terms.

Whether China would be likely to respond in kind to major U.S. concessions remains unclear. Also unclear is whether a group of Chinese scholars, executives and government and military officials would make similarly frank recommendations for improving U.S.-China relations to leaders in Beijing. (WSJ

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