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Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping, right, invites his U.S. counterpart Joseph Biden to review an honor guard during a welcoming ceremony inside Beijing's Great Hall of the People on Aug. 18, 2011. Xi is expected to become Communist Party chief in 2012.

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Analysis & Opinions - The Boston Globe

Strategy on China: Keep It Vague

| January 9, 2012

"With those kinds of leadership changes occurring in China, the most important move the United States can make now is to deepen its engagement throughout East Asia — including maintaining our troops and naval presence there — but to stay flexible and prepared to adjust to whatever may come next in China."