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BON interview with Shi Yonhong, professor of international relations and director of the center for American studies at Renmin university.

US General Stanley McChrystal said last week that there had been "enough fighting" in Afghanistan. And he said a political solution in the war-torn country was "inevitable". His remarks came as the top UN envoy in Kabul said it was time to talk to the militants. Afghan and Pakistani leaders are in Turkey to discuss tackling the Taliban-led insurgency in their countries.

Both Afghan President Hamid Karzai and his Pakistani counterpart, Asif Ali Zardari, attended an international conference on Afghanistan in London last week. Gen McChrystal has said the arrival of the extra 30,000 US troops pledged by President Obama and the additional 7,000 troops promised by other Nato countries should deliver significant progress in 2010.

And he said that a political solution to the conflict was inevitable. Afghan President Karzai told the BBC last week of his desire for reconciliation. He did not rule out a role for the Taliban in a future Afghan government.

Until recently, few people in China would have recognized the word “Wikileaks”. But since the website's leaking of thousands of pages of classified US documents on the Afghan War that's all changed. And media coverage of the posting of what's claimed to be an internal CIA report more recently has fascinated many in China - where leaking classified state secrets is severely punished.

A lot of people are worried about China's exports to Europe as the Euro has depreciated. Others worry that China might come under EVEN MORE pressure to let its currency appreciate. One person commenting here says: "It looks like there is not much that China can do to persify its reserve risk. Commodities? Only to a certain extent. The other obvious choice" this person says "is to open up its currency so the renminbi becomes one of the World's reserve currencies. At least, this will allow China to manage its destiny better and not be at the mercy of others."