Playing the anti-China card

President Obama has pinned his re-election hopes on a change of policy that threatens trade ties between the two countries

Recent China-targeted initiatives by US President Barack Obama have soured Sino-US relations.

At the just-concluded East Asian Summit, Obama reiterated an increased US presence in Asia and announced a stance on the South China Sea disputes that is at odds with the diplomacy of Beijing on the issue. In his preceding visit to Australia, he also unveiled a plan to station 2,500 US troops in the country within the next five years. These, along with the provocative remarks recently made by the Obama administration on China's renminbi exchange rate and a raft of actions that have harmed China's core interests, including an arms sales package to Taiwan, Obama's meeting with the Dalai Lama and Washington's increased anti-dumping and anti-subsidy investigations against China, have seriously affected the stable development of Sino-US economic and trade relations.