U.S & China's necessary evil!

Anthony Todd   
Advanced World Studies
Mr.Rowley
December 2, 2011


“U.S relations with China is a necessary evil”

    China has always been trying to be number one. China and the Untied States get along but they “compete” to be on the top. After WWI China was in disorder and ,Sun Yat-sen stepped down leaving rival groups fighting for power. In the 1930’s Mao Zedong was the leader of communists. Mao led a march called the long march. The long march consisted of 100,000 of Mao’s followers, and only 20,000 people survived the long march.

    During WWII Civil War ceased order to fight Japanese forces. The communists and the Nationalists fought against the Japanese invasion. In 1949 Communists are victorious and the Nationalists fled to Taiwan. Mao was successful because he won the support of the huge peasant population by promising to give land to peasants, Mao won the support of women by rejecting religious beliefs. Many people opposed Nationalists government because of corruption, and the chinese felt that Nationalists had allowed foreigners to dominate China.

   
    In 1958 Mao had a program called The great leap forward. He called on people to increase industrial and agricultural output. In the 1970’s China won admission to the United Nations. When president Richard Nixon visited Mao in 1972 the U.S officially recognized the peoples republic of China. In 1976 Mao died and Deng Xiaoping took over for Mao. Deng brought more economic freedom but little political change.

    Britain had gained Hong Kong but in 1997 Hong Kong was turned over to China. China agreed not to interfere with social or economic policies of Hong Kong for 50 years.Today in china they have one of the most fastest economy’s in the world. In the United States we rely on exports from China. China has the largest population of 1.3 billion people.

    I think that even though China and the United States are competing to be on top that it is not a bad thing and the no matter what happens China and the United States should still remain as friends and not enemies.