Hacking on Washington when you're a leader in Washington is dopey, disingenuous and demeaning. The United States reportedly will offer China an advance look at plans for testing the proposed missile defense shield. I wonder if that's a good idea. One of the mistakes the West has made in the past is believing that other people are just like us and that they respond to fairness and openness. Closed and unfair systems have used such notions against us and there is no reason that China won't do so in the future.
China wants to challenge U.S. interests in the Pacific, starting with Taiwan.
The United States reportedly may also agree to mutual underground nuclear testing, which is in suspension due to a voluntary worldwide moratorium. This supposedly would allow both countries to maintain the reliability of their stockpiles, but some fear it would also allow China to create a new generation of mobile missiles with multiple warheads. Many westerners believed the old Soviet Union could be made reasonable by what the West did or did not do. That policy proved a failure. Let's hope the United States will not make the same mistake with China, which could be a bigger threat than the Soviets ever were.