This question has to be examined, not only in the context of U.S.-China relationships, it has to be looked at in the light of historical relationships, in which the major European powers, including the U.S., sought to achieve their own objectives in opening trade with China and, asa consequence, humiliated agreatnation.
Pretty much all of the French candidates have tried to mark themselves out with voters by defining new limits on international co-operation and by emphasising that France, asagreat and historic nation, can keep certain international forces at bay.