MOSCOW. (RIA Novosti political analyst Dmitry...

Washington has tried to pretend that nothing unusual is happening, and that this does not mark the beginning of Barack Obama"s most serious and, apparently, most desperate foreign policy crisis.

But hiatuses are not permanent, even in relations with the Chinese. The Beijing media report that Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi will attend a security forum in Munich, for the first time in its history, and will probably have informal meetings with his American colleagues at the weekend. Judging by the forum"s guest list, the Chinese foreign minister will talk with U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates.

As a rule, crucial diplomatic decisions are made at informal meetings, so let"s hope that the conflict will gradually subside after Munich. Nevertheless, this conflict has demonstrated many realities of our new world order, and this is a good thing.

As in the majority of such cases, what we are seeing is not what is happening in reality. Last Friday, Washington announced

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