Posted on 10/31/2004 9:42:02 PM PST by spyone
BEIJING (Reuters) - On the eve of the U.S. election, China laid into what it called the "Bush doctrine," said the Iraq war has destroyed the global anti-terror coalition and blamed arrogance for the problems dogging the United States worldwide.
The searing article was as close to a position on the U.S. presidential election as China has come, but it made no mention of Massachusetts Senator John Kerry, the Democratic Party's challenger to President Bush in Tuesday's presidential contest.
The United States was dreaming if it thought the 21st century was the American century, wrote Qian Qichen, one of the main architects of China's foreign policy, in a commentary in the English-language China Daily newspaper.
"The current U.S. predicament in Iraq serves as another example that when a country's superiority psychology inflates beyond its real capability, a lot of trouble can be caused," Qian wrote.
"But the troubles and disasters the United States has met do not stem from the threats by others, but from its own cocksureness and arrogance."
Qian is a former foreign minister credited with breaking China out of diplomatic isolation after the crackdown on the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests.
The invasion of Iraq "has made the United States even more unpopular in the international community than its war in Vietnam," he said.
"The Iraq war has also destroyed the hard-won global anti-terror coalition," Qian added, saying it had caused a rise in terrorist activity around the globe and widened a rift between the United States and Europe.
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The U.S. strategy of pre-emptive strikes would bring insecurity and ultimately the demise of the "American empire," Qian said.
Analysts have said China has a slight preference for the incumbent in the U.S. election, realising that U.S. policy toward China has changed little from administration to administration.
But China, growing in economic and political influence on the world stage, has expressed its aversion to Bush's unilateralist tendencies and sided with France and Germany in opposition to the Iraq war.
"It is now time to give up the illusion that Europeans and Americans are living in the same world, as some Europeans would like to believe," Qian said.
The United States had not changed its Cold War mentality, Qian said.
"The 21st century is not the 'American century'. That does not mean that the United States does not want the dream. Rather it is incapable of realizing the goal," he said.
After the Sept. 11 attacks on the United States, the "Bush doctrine" created "axes of evil" and pre-emptive strategies.
"It linked counter-terrorism and the prevention of proliferation of so-called rogue states and failed states ... It all testifies that Washington's anti-terror campaign has already gone beyond the scope of self-defense."
Fighting Chinese in the streets? You give them too much credit.
Them being the Chinese, of course.
I hope W remembers who his enemies are after he is reelected.
This is an overtly hostile act. I am going to sell my Chinese stocks tommorrow. There WILL be long term repercussions over this.
This is a great reason to put Bush back in the White House.
Their is an old saying "If your name is on the SH%T House walls, you know your doing a good Job!!
Bush's name has been on the SH%T House walls since before he moved in the White House. Remember the Clintonistas removing all the "W"'s from the keyboards. They should have prosecuted them !
China loves having demos in office because their military gets a lot stronger. In fact, they were able receive the technology to develop missiles that could hit any city in the USA after the last demo president.
Just a simple matter of poor fiscal policy, A lack of history, Some arrogance, Fiat money and little to sell to balance imports.
The well is running dry on our money and policy.
Would you sell oil to a poop head with a over drawn checking account?
Nothing in the article says this is China's offical position. This is basically the position of one man. I guess we should expect the liberal media to run with such a story.
Repercussions of not holding anything of value. I hope you don't convert to dollars.
Check out Goldmoney.com.
The dollar is dead. Might as well own post WWI marks.
Possibly true longer term, but expect a 4 cent rally in the dollar after Bush wins.
Hardly "one man".
We do not need to trade with these people, not the slightest bit. Taiwan can have nuclear weapons and announce the fact. And the present criminal leadership of North Korea should be destroyed. Then we can talk again about whose ambitions are beyond their capabilities. If they still aren't inclined to be reasonable, they can always try trading with the world through a complete blockade enforced by the US navy.
I believe Taiwan already has nuclear weapons.
China? CHINA! The same China that put the N. Koreans in the nuke biz? The ones who with the Russians,French and German "allies" equipped IRAQ and IRAN and Libya? The same "toads" who are supporting genocide in the SUDAN?...for the oil they now so desperately need? You mean that CHINA? The China that has crushed Tibet?
You sure youre talking about that China?
Let's see. The ones secretly equipping Syria, Lebanon,Egypt and all those Islamofacist cells in between?
Jas! You are a true believer.
I think I will add China to my Boycott list (along with my old and still on-going French Boycott)
I will not support a country with such a hostile attitude toward the US.
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