Topic Summary (from www.search.com): Sino-american relations have generally been volatile, especially after the fall of the Soviet Union , which removed a common enemy and ushered in a world characterized by American dominance. Many in the United States remain suspicious of Communist China and believe that its goal is to establish hegemony in East Asia and threaten U.S. interests. There are also grievances which relate to human rights in the People's Republic of China and the PRC's claims over Taiwan . For its part, there are suspicions in China that the United States wishes to keep China weak and divided and that the U.S. criticisms over human rights are unwarranted in light of the economic and living standard improvements that have occurred in mainland China .

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• Sino-american relations: Sino-american relations have generally been volatile, especially after the fall of the Soviet Union , which removed a common enemy and ushered in a world characterized by American dominance (from www.search.com)
• United States: The United States dispatched two aircraft carrier battle groups to the region (from en.wikipedia.org)
• American relations: It is hard to find much scholarly work on Sino-Latin American relations of the last 20 years.1 Nevertheless, the growth of bilateral relations during this period is increasingly important, if not yet significant, for both sides. (from findarticles.com)
• Taiwan Relations: Subsequently, tensions in the Taiwan Strait diminished, and Relations between the U.S (from en.wikipedia.org)
• Chinese relations: Difficulties over trade relations have included Chinese displeasure with United States efforts to limit imports such as textiles and a degree of disappointment and frustration within the American business community over the difficulties of doing business in China (from countrystudies.us)
• Chinese people: He traveled extensively in mainland China, and had direct interaction with the Chinese people included live speeches and a radio show, allowing the President to convey first hand to the Chinese people a sense of American ideals and values (from en.wikipedia.org)
• China Trade: In addition to the question of Taiwan, other aspects of United States- China relations created controversy at times during the 1980s: Sino-American Trade relations, the limits of American technology transfer to China , the nature and extent of United States- China security relations, and occasional friction caused by defections or lawsuits (from countrystudies.us)
• mainland China: President Clinton was criticized by some, however, for failing to pay adequate attention to human rights abuses in mainland China (Eckholm). (from en.wikipedia.org)
• Latin America: Although scholars and policymakers talk about the dynamic economic potential in the relationship between the People's Republic of China (PRC) and Latin America , few have attempted to examine closely the diplomatic and economic relationship as it has developed since the late 1970s (from findarticles.com)
• hegemonic stability theory: Although balance of threat explains the immediate nature for establishing the Shanghai Communiqu hegemonic stability theory best explains the long-term nature of Sino-American politics (from www.omninerd.com)
• foreign states: In both historic and contemporary affairs, China's leadership interacts with foreign states on a basis of privilege and need only (from www.omninerd.com)
• Soviet threat: China successfully countered a Soviet threat by hiding beneath the nuclear umbrella of the United States (from www.omninerd.com)
• Reconnaissance Flights: This document discloses policy decisions on Chinese-area Reconnaissance Flights during the early Nixon administration (from www.gwu.edu)
• State Department: As Brown's commentary indicates, the Pentagon's request made State Department China hands nervous because U.S (from www.gwu.edu)

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