Time to Wield the Foreign Policy Stick
China apologizes for violating international trade regulations, then continues to violate them. America beseeches China to stop manipulating its currency, then China allows the value to increase a completely insignificant amount. America simply accepts the abuse. In his meetings with Chinese President Hu Jintao this week, President Obama must announce that America is done with soft talk. Obama needs to tell Hu that America has heard enough promises; the United States is bucking up and pulling out that big stick that Teddy Roosevelt carried in foreign policy negotiations.
