We have to stop this "oh please please please be nice" diplomacy and start grabbing China by the balls. To wit, if you block us in the UN regarding Iran, you can count on Taiwan acquiring the fanciest nuclear weapons you have every laid your eyes on. You want to arm or enable our enemies, fine and dandy. Two can play at that game.
Another portion of the Clinton "legacy".
China's growing devide between rich and poor unencumbered by dictatorial retraints is what (wealthy) china fears.
These people crack me up. It is their trade policies (or lack thereof) that has allowed this to happen. And now they cry about it. Worthless bunch of morons.
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"US watches China's rising star with anxiety"
Like this is a suprise? Hell, we built them up by allowing tech transfer and trade.
Our "Elites" have been feeding the dragon that is going to eat them.
Modern liberalism does not offer ordinary men compelling motives for personal suffering, sacrifice, and death. There is no tragic dimension in its picture of the good life. Men become willing to endure, sacrifice, and die for God, for family, king, honor, country, from a sense of absolute duty or an exalted vision of the meaning of history… . And it is precisely these ideas and institutions that liberalism has criticized, attacked, and in part overthrown as superstitious, archaic, reactionary, and irrational. In their place liberalism proposes a set of pale and bloodless abstractions—pale and bloodless for the very reason that they have no roots in the past, in deep feeling and in suffering. Except for mercenaries, saints, and neurotics, no one is willing to sacrifice and die for progressive education, medicare, humanity in the abstract, the United Nations, and a ten percent rise in Social Security payments.-- James Burnham