I chose this site because whilst covering issues such as Economics and Beijing's view on Obama it also has a timeline which shows events in both China and America which have shaped their relationship from 1784 with the beginning of U.S. China trade through the Chinese Exclusion Act ' which bans immigration of laborers (and their wives) from China for ten years and disallows them from becoming American citizens through naturalization. Leads to a “bachelor society” of Chinese immigrants.' showing the hostilities against Communism up until 2009 where two Chinese Americans are appointed to the Obama cabinet.
Subjects looked upon on this site include right to Religious Freedom which Americans take very seriously where as this was forbidden in China during the cultural revolutiuon of 1966-1976.
'Though the number of believers are difficult to determine because many have kept their faith hidden in the face of the Communist Party’s traditional hostility towards religion, a separate survey conducted by the East China Normal Univeristy in 2007 found that nearly one quarter (about 300 million) of the population may be religious believers, three times the official figure of 100 million.'
The Beliefs and attitudes of both countries I feel are in many ways polar opposite to one another but it is mutually beneficial for both parties (especially America) that they maintain a good relationship as China starts to rapidly catch up to and may even surpass America as a world super power. America as the only super power in the present day wants to hang onto this and so needs to keep China 'on side' in many ways, trade, military etc
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