Last week's Cabinet-level U.S.-China trade negotiations and their lead-in were such an embarrassing flop for the United States that President Obama should probably skip Beijing on his upcoming visit to Asia. The talks, ostensibly aimed at righting the two countries' dangerously lopsided economic relationship, instead have made incontrovertibly clear the pointlessness of holding trade talks with China in the first place.

Not that the evidence hasn't been piling up for years - in the form of continuous American sycophancy, the downright insulting Chinese bluster that invariably follows, plus a Chinese determination to violate commitments nearly as intense as Washington's determination to look the other way or serve up excuses.

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