An opinion article from The National Interest writes, "Optimists about the future of U.S.-China relations, who believe that China can and should become a 'responsible stakeholder' in the international community, argue that the United States must adopt strategic restraint and conciliatory behavior towards China so that Beijing will reciprocate in kind. Pessimists, regarding it as inevitable that China will seek to overturn the American-made international system, counter that only by maintaining a favorable balance of power can the United States and its allies protect their interests in the context of China's seemingly inexorable ascent to material preponderance. For all their differences, these two stylized responses to China's rise share a common focus on U.S. external relations. That is, each approach consists of a set of foreign policy prescriptions for dealing with China." 

"Tensions in Hong Kong over people from mainland China pouring in to buy goods erupted in a crowded shopping mall on Sunday, when the police arrested about a dozen people and used pepper spray to subdue hundreds of protesters who had gathered to harangue the cross-border shoppers. The confrontation inside the Trend Plaza in Tuen Mun, a district close to the Hong Kong border with the mainland, marked an escalation of simmering accusations that mainland shoppers are making life more difficult, and more expensive, for Hong Kong residents...The police, prepared for trouble after outbursts of confrontation over recent weeks, moved in and used pepper spray. Several protesters and at least one police officer were injured in disputes that broke out on the third floor of the mall," reports The New York Times. 

The New York Times writes, "President Xi Jinping of China is set to make a state visit to the United States later this year, his first since becoming the top leader of Asia's biggest economy. No date has been set yet for the visit, Cui Tiankai, China's ambassador to the United States, told reporters over the weekend, according to the official China Daily newspaper...Summit meetings between the leaders of the United States and China, the world's two biggest economies, are always major events, and there will be pressure on both sides to deliver something from this one. A meeting between Mr. Xi and Mr. Obama in Beijing in November yielded a major agreement on controlling greenhouse gases. There are many contentious issues between the two nations, including concerns about cybersecurity and tensions between China and Japan and the Philippines, which are American allies, over territorial claims in the East and South China Seas."