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But some American specialists, including Qiao Liang, at the Chinese air force headquarters, used the excuse that Tuesday's attacks against the US were an understandable response to American hegemony.

"Many innocent people became victims of American policy after the Cold War," he alleged, arguing that US foreign policies were to blame for what happened.

And which foreign policies are those? America shows up, aka has a presence= "American policy."

This is not a response to any specific American policy. This is about America being America. Some people do not like that merely because our way of doing things is not the same way as some propped up regime who feels they should be able to do whatever they want to do.

Our presence threatens the power bases of those regimes, whoever they are.

America did not do anything bad, but rather it is like the girlfriend syndrome: If a girlfriend gets giddy when she sees some other guy, they boyfriend gets jealous and wants to fight.

If America stays only within its own borders then America is attacked. If America goes outside of its borders, then America is attacked. There is no way around it.

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But tension might still deepen between the two nations over America's plans to deploy a missile defence system, a move China is fighting hard to prevent as a shield would shelter Taiwan from mainland missiles.

But a militant mood in the US could lead Mr Bush to brush aside any missile defence shield objections that Mr Jiang might raise at next month's summit.

The truth be told...