President george w. bush came out of his first major foreign policy test-with China-unscathed and with his reputation enhanced. It is already clear that getting on sensibly with China will be one of the biggest challenges of Bush's presidency. A systematic approach is required. Here are the seven pillars of wisdom that ought to be the axioms of U.S.-China policy: 1. China is a poor, proud and touchy country, which throughout the 19th century was repeatedly humiliated and exploited by the rich powers. Those experiences are branded into its national psyche. There are two ways in which these ghosts can be exorcised-by succeeding in war or becoming rich.
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