Posted on 04/03/2007 1:33:33 PM PDT by Paul Ross
Tuesday, April 3, 2007 7:29 a.m. EDT
Font size=+3>Kissinger: U.S., China Can Form 'New Global Order'
Newsmax, Reporting Reuters.
China's rise as a global power is inevitable and could lead to conflict unless Beijing and Washington can cooperate to create a new global order, former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger said on Tuesday.
Kissinger first came to Beijing in 1971, on a secret mission to re-establish Sino-U.S. ties after more than two decades of diplomatic silence.
Since then, economic reforms have turned China into a powerhouse. Beijing is now running a trade surplus with the United States that Washington last year put at $230 billion, and helps keep its rival afloat by buying vast amounts of U.S. debt.
Washington politicians have also sparred with Beijing over issues related to its rapid development from currency controls to military spending and foreign policy in countries like Sudan.
But Kissinger said China's growing political and economic prominence was irreversible, and if the two nations could not cooperate it raised the specter of war.
"When friends and colleagues in the United States talk about the rise of China and the problems it presents to us, I say the rise is inevitable. There is nothing we can do to prevent it, there is nothing we should do to prevent it," Kissinger said.
"When the centre of gravity moves from one region to another, and another country becomes suddenly very powerful, what history teaches you is that conflict is inevitable. What we have to learn is that cooperation is essential," he said in a lecture to the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
Challenges ranging from nuclear proliferation to increasingly tight energy supplies and environmental degradation needed to be tackled together.
"I look at Sino-American relations as a challenge to build a new international system based on human insight, on cooperative action, to avoid catastrophe," Kissinger said.
"Those of you who are students and who will be shaping the world should not think of the other country as adversaries."
Kissinger insisted the world must avoid exoticizing China. When he first came to Beijing, he said, his prepared speech contained a line about reaching a "mysterious country", prompting a challenge by master diplomat Zhou Enlai, then China's premier.
"Zhou Enlai put up his hand and said 'What is so mysterious about China? There are 900 million of us and it is not mysterious to us.' That was an important lesson," Kissinger said.
Start fortressing.
“Those of you who are students and who will be shaping the world should not think of the other country as adversaries.”
Yea, pass the bong dude. I get the warm fuzzies thinking about all those ICBM’s aimed at the US now.
Oh, yea...aren’t they going through the largest naval build-up in the history of this planet.
Maybe we can just convert all those ships into Love Boats.
Kewl
Or learning how to live with them. They will never be able to beat us militarily and they need us every bit as much as we need them economically. Having a strong economy keeps their government in charge which is what every corrupt regime desires.
“Those of you who are students and who will be shaping the world should not think of the other country as adversaries.”
We could learn a lot from our friends, the Chinese, about how to keep the serfs in their place using torture and police brutality. China should not be allowed to become a power until they demonstrate the ability to be a civilized nation.
Real tricky substituting 'global' for 'world' there, Henry......
Dr. Strangelove speaks.
“They will never be able to beat us militarily...”
Given a little time, anything is possible.
I believe an US-Asian nexus(be it India or Chinese) will be necessary to control the savages of europe.
Kissinger is and always has been an idiot.
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“Given a little time, anything is possible.”
Perhaps, but then it’s much more likely that they’ll not “beat” us economically, despite the China hyperbole saturating everything.
More globalist drivel from this old sputtering Rockefeller fool.
And they just happen to be one of the largest importers of Iranian petroleum products.
What I find interesting is the implication by the writer (who I would love to find an email contact for) that Kissinger is saying the center of gravity is shifting to China. What he’s actually saying, and has been saying for some time, is that the center of gravity is shifting from the Atlantic (US-Europe) to the Pacific (US-Asia), and that this power shift in conjunction with China’s rise is what may fuel contention not just with the U.S. at all but with other nations in the region and, pointedly, with Europe in the longer run.
The man is wise and speaks words that should be heeded.
The communist rule in China is but a blip, an historical anomaly. The country is undergoing great change and the people are exhibiting their pent up ability.
China must be carefully treated to allow growth of the natural capitalistic ability of the people and dampen the communistic state control of everything.
Freepers tend to focus on the mainland super communists while ignoring the overseas Chineese who are every ehere and long to deql again with home. Their influence in the process can not be ignored.
History is a process, not an event.
As long as we have nuke subs that roam the ocean we can wipe them out. 100 nuke missiles targeted at their cities, dams, ports and military bases means they cease to be an operating country.
What I am talking about here is the M.A.D. Doctrine that we had with the Russians.
China is an ancient, civilized nation. Unfortunately, Mao destroyed many of the old values, and the current government is still Communist, totalitarian, militaristic, expansion minded, and uncooperative.
Unless and until they get a new government, I don’t see much hope that we can deal with them as friends, especially when they take every opportunity to arm our enemies and undermine our economy—with the unfortunate help of the last two administrations.
I had hoped that perhaps we could work with Russia against China, at least until they straightened out, but that doesn’t seem to be in the cards, either.
It’s a dangerous world. It takes two to be friends, and the Chinese aren’t interested.
...... the center of gravity is shifting from the Atlantic (US-Europe) to the Pacific (US-Asia).....
The western boundry is the Arabian Gulf and the economic, financial and maritime powerhouse that is Dubai/UAE
The eastern boundry is LA, and the new Mexican port.
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