Congressman's remark should make US accept reality as it is

Delivering a keynote address at a Brookings Institution forum on "The End of US Engagement with China?" on March 7, US Congressman Rick Larsen jestingly said: "I think you got your title wrong... a more appropriate title would be: '(Is This the) End of US Engagement with China, the EU, Canada, Mexico?' and so on."

On a serious note, he said: "The short answer to that I think is, no."

Larsen, Democratic representative of Washington's Second District since 2001, is a politician with humor and sees "a lot of room for cooperation" with Beijing. And as the co-chair of the bipartisan US-China Working Group, he has a "realistic" playbook guiding his attitude and approach toward China.