Thanks, it is something I like to hear. And I do believe that is important to convey to the Chinese people. I know, that in general, the US does welcome it. Even Defense Secretary Robert Gates and Admiral Mike Mullen have welcomed China's status as a global power. And of course, Obama.
No American, conservative or otherwise, approves of the Chinese COMMUNIST government.
I think if I hear more conservatives state what Gates, Mullen, and Obama have said about China, I can go along more strongly with drive for a constitutional republic in China. I think its very important to the Chinese people, that China's rise receives support from the West.
Then you will win a lot of FRiends here.
You have mentioned American Christian missionaries in China as evidence of America's high regard for Chinese people.
I could mention another fact which most people are not aware of.
President Franklin Roosevelt (lived from 1882 to 1945) is usually ranked (not always for better) up with George Washington and Abraham Lincoln as amongst America's greatest presidents.
Roosevelt's family was quite wealthy and young FDR was a child of privilege.
Not everyone knows that the Roosevelts made their money in China (ahem, I won't mention how), and President Roosevelt's high regard for the Chinese was a key factor in the demands he made of Japan in 1941.
Those demands included that Japan must withdraw its military forces from China.
This Japan was unwilling to even discuss, and as a result decided to attack US forces in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.
So, you could say that, among other reasons, World War II for the United States was all about defending Chinese from a murderously oppressive foreign army.
My point is: personal friendships between US and Chinese people go back a long way in history.