US President Barack Obama and Chinese President Xi Jinping will meet on June 7-8 in Rancho Mirage, California, for what the White House calls a "shirt-sleeves" summit. This informal atmosphere, according to the White House, "should allow for a greater degree of openness to 'constructively manage' the two sides' differences."
Some are less optimistic: "inevitably, there is the post-summit letdown. The issues were the same as always. The leaders didn't really get along (although no one quite says that). And new agreements were never in the cards," wrote Elizabeth C. Economy of the influential Council on Foreign Relations.
Foreign Policy chimes in: "The administration is forgetting that national interests, and not personalities, drive international politics." (6/4) The New York Times, puts it more bluntly: "For better or worse, America and China are bound together in a form of mutually assured economic destruction." (6/2)
This is a rare candid acceptance of what Red Flag consistently points out: The US and China's bosses are increasingly locked in a battle for economic supremacy. They need to control the world's markets and the cheapest sources of raw material and labor. It is a battle that will inevitably lead to World War III.

The US Imperialism in Rapid Decline –Chinese Imperialism on Meteoric Rise
Worldwide, US bosses have lost market share, access to natural resources, investment opportunities and political influence. China, on the other hand, has become the world's leading exporter. Its trade surplus in 2012 was $231 billion. The US trade deficit for that year was $540 billion (including $315 billion with China).
China also surpassed the US in 2012 as the biggest trading nation. While the US is the world's biggest debtor nation, China has become the world's biggest lender, out lending the USEU-controlled World Bank.

US Pivots to Asia -China Marches West: Imperialist Dance of Death
No imperialist power gives up its dominant status without a fight. And, no imperialist power rises peacefully. US and Chinese imperialism are no exceptions. The US response to China's rise is "rebalancing" or "pivot to Asia." China responds by "Marching West."
With the world's biggest navy and with those of a coalition it is building in the region, the US bosses hope in times of war to blockade China to stop its world's trade, including importing the energy needed for its industries and military machine.
At the recent Shangri-La Conference, in Singapore (5/31-6/2), Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel said the US is committed to this strategy "even under the most extreme budget scenarios, the United States military will continue to represent nearly 40 percent of global defense expenditures."
The US bosses are also building their TransPacific Partnership, a trade alliance that excludes and attempts to isolate China and interferes with its efforts at East Asian regional economic integration.
Beijing sees that the US "rebalancing" and its military alliances in Asia Pacific as trying to contain China's rise: "The redeployment of the US fleet and air force is merely an easily-achieved effort to comfort the US' allies. China's rise stems from economic growth, a trend that cannot be impeded by the relocation of American warship." Global Times 6/3.
But China wants to avoid, for now, head on military confrontation with the US over, for example, the Diaoyu/Senkaku Islands, where China and Japan are vying for control. Instead, China's plan is to "March West," to expand its influence and investment in Central Asia, South Asia and Latin America.
Of especial strategic importance is its march to the Middle East which is to guarantee a road route for its oil imports needed in times of war to bypass the US controlled Asia-Pacific sea routes.

Capitalism Makes Imperialist War Inevitable
Imperialism is the inevitable outcome of the capitalist system, which is based on competition among capitalists for maximum profit. Capitalists uses the value they steal from workers to expand to countries, maximizing profits by paying lower wages and stealing the natural resources for their industries. The logic of capitalism makes imperialists incapable of sharing the world's markets, resources and labor. Their competition leads inexorable to world war.

Communism will end Imperialism
Unlike the bosses, the workers of the world are capable of sharing what we produce and planning our lives and future to meet our collective needs. In fact, our lives depend on it.
Angry workers from Greece, Turkey, Bangladesh, to Mexico and the US are fighting the slave labor conditions imposed on them to pay for capitalism's crisis and the coming world war. To put an end to the bosses' genocidal plans workers must mobilize for a revolution to destroy capitalism, its inevitable competition, exploitation, and war for maximum profits.
The massive uprising of workers worldwide shows the urgency of building communist solidarity and internationalism by building the International Communist Workers' Party and spreading Red Flag. This will guarantee that workers, soldiers and students turn the main contradiction in the world from one between the bloodthirsty bosses to one between the world's workers and all bosses. Communist revolution means masses mobilizing for a world where we share everything and produce only for our class. Eliminating money and bosses, there will be no competition for profit—only real cooperation for need.