China wonders about reason for Clinton's Myanmar trip

BY TOM LASSETERMCCLATCHY NEWSPAPERSBEIJING -- As Hillary Rodham Clinton visited Myanmar on Wednesday, the neighbors were watching closely.The trip to the usually closed-off nation, the first by a U.S. secretary of state in more than half a century, boosted suspicions in China that the United States is pursuing a strategy of encirclement to blunt China's rise.An editorial in the English-language edition of the Global Times, a Chinese state-controlled tabloid with nationalist leanings, said

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