Chinese President Hu Jintao is in the United States this week for a state visit.

HENRY ROSEMONT
Available for a limited number of interviews, Rosemont is visiting professor of religious studies at Brown University and author of several books including A Chinese Mirror: Moral Reflections on Political Economy and translations of Chinese classics. He said today: “China is a threat to the United States only if the United States assumes that it is, and pursues an aggressive foreign policy that serves only our own and not China’s interests. The best hope for a less tension-filled world is for both countries to reduce military spending significantly — with the U.S. taking the lead both to show good faith and because its military budget is larger than the rest of the world’s combined — and to be willing to surrender a little of their sovereignty to the United Nations in order to strengthen that organization’s ability to reduce terrorism and war and adjudicate disputes between nation states.” Rosemont wrote the piece “Is China a Threat?” [Read more...]