China’s rise welcome

America will continue to welcome China’s rise only if it plays a constructive role in the region, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has said.

China’s rise welcome if it plays a constructive role: Hillary Clinton

America will continue to welcome China’s rise only if it plays a constructive role in the region, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has said.

“The Pacific is big enough for all of us, and we will continue to welcome China’s rise if it chooses to play a constructive role in the region.

For both of us, the future of this relationship depends on our ability to engage across all these issues at once,” Clinton said yesterday in her last foreign policy speech as the Secretary of State at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), a Washington-based think-tank .

“Navigating this relationship is uniquely consequential because how we deal with one another will define so much of our common future.

“We are trying to write a new answer to the age-old question of what happens when an established power and a rising power meet,” she said.

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Source: The Indian Express.