China USA Relations Cooling?

Are China USA relations cooling?

China hit back at U.S. criticism of Internet censorship and hacking on Friday, warning that relations between the two global heavyweights were being hurt by a feud centered on web giant Google.

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton challenged Beijing and other authoritarian governments on Thursday to end Internet censorship, an issue that has jumped to the heart of U.S.-China ties after Google threatened to quit China due to hacking and web restrictions.

Ties between China and the United States have been put to the test in recent months over trade, currency, climate change and arms sales to Taiwan.

With the two nations joined at the hip economically, Sino-U.S. tensions are unlikely to escalate into outright confrontation, but could make cooperating on global economic and security issues all the more difficult.

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