It's time Obama made peace with China
US President Barack Obama will be in Beijing to attend the APEC meeting, where he will get the opportunity to make history and finally make good on the Nobel Peace Prize given to him rather prematurely at the beginning of his first term in office.
Given the litany of woes, Obama should be asking why he would want to maintain the tension and pretense of "strategic ambiguity" with China. Despite both sides claiming a warming of bilateral relations, it has been more of one step forward and one step back, sometimes even two steps back.
The latest such example was for the Pentagon to give a senior People's Liberation Army officer the red carpet treatment while the Justice Department was publicly indicting five PLA soldiers alleging illegal cyber attack.
