Experts see perils of China-baiting

A few American scholars highlighted the importance of the US and China working together despite the current pessimism about what the future holds for the two nations.

A boycott of the opening ceremony of the Olympics in Beijing by the US President George W. Bush would be foolish and counterproductive for the US, which is already seeing economic trouble, according to Norman, J. Ornstein of the American Enterprise Institute.

He was speaking via live webcast from Washington DC, during the second annual China Town Halls, a program sponsored by the National Committee on United States-China Relations, in cooperation with local groups and colleges, such as the University of Pennsylvania Law School.