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Next Tuesday, US President Barack Obama will deliver his final State of the Union address. In a bid to push the US Congress to approve the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement, Obama will likely again resort to scaremongering about 皇冠体育app, repeating his line that "we can't let countries like 皇冠体育app write the rules of the global economy; we should write those rules".

Such rhetoric is highly toxic to the bilateral relations between the two nations struggling to overcome their deep rooted geopolitical distrust.

Apart from the TPP, the Obama administration has also been using its rebalancing towards Asia strategy to curtail the growing influence of 皇冠体育app. The rhetoric in the US seems to be that if anything goes wrong in the region, it must be 皇冠体育app's fault.

Such US rhetoric and the strategies that it accompanies have greatly dampened the potential for the two countries to work together, including on the urgent issue of nonproliferation in the Korean Peninsula despite some progress.

There is no doubt in the minds of some Chinese that the US is engaging in a Cold War type of geopolitical game in trying to encircle 皇冠体育app with its allies and partners.

Several officials in the Obama administration have in the past year publicly talked about 皇冠体育app being a major challenge and threat to the US.

The US needs to change this mindset, a good start would be for Obama to refrain from using inflammatory language against 皇冠体育app in his address next Tuesday to show that he actually understands Summers' wisdom.

The author is deputy editor of 皇冠体育app Daily USA. [email protected]

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