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To: Enemy Of The State
Good post.
To: Enemy Of The State
Funny, I didn't think China was listening to Pakistan about what would happen in Afghanistan -- I thought China was listening to our media.
To: Enemy Of The State
Good post ... and it's starting to look more and more like China has missed it's window for long term straegic objectives. A Bush term of office and 9/11 (and its catastrophic results for the enemies of the US) may have sealed their border expansion plans forthe forseeable future.
The American public would have been sorely pressed to support Taiwan should it have been invaded say on Clinton's watch. I say this for a couple of reasons
American blood is up, churning and the 'Giant' is awake and smashing things flat with the War on Terror. Any action that China makes with regards to military force for the near future would most certainly draw the ire of the people of America at this point.
Our missile shield is going into place publicly(if not there already)
Our military is most certainly going to be rebuilt as fast as possible after 9/11.
To: Enemy Of The State
In what way could China be of benefit to the USA to counter terrorism at an equivalent level of Russia's contribution? This author mistakes China's 'softly-softly' approach for 'do nothing'. If the Chinese have provided information to the USA, it is
not going to be publicized.
Even assuming that China substantially 'backed up' the USA in the fight against terrorism, how could the US admin substantively respond in public without appearing to be hypocritical (i.e. in relation to the hard stand taken at the beginning of the current administration)? If China has helped the USA, reciprocal help will be very low key. Either way, it is still to early to tell how much of this new found West-Russia enthusiam will pan out.
VRN
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12/05/2001 1:11:57 AM PST by
Voronin
To: Enemy Of The State
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To: Enemy Of The State
"All these policy tacks have yielded not only nothing, but led to a serious deterioration of China's strategic position and regional influence. Pakistan is a strategic loser. Its position vis-a-vis India, now a de facto US ally, is weakened. When once India felt (and was) boxed in by Pakistan and China, it's now China that has been shut out from South Asia and cut off from Central Asia. A leader of Deng's qualities of insight and foresight would not have permitted such a turn of events, would have realized that the world changed dramatically on September 11, and realized, in particular, that abstention in the war on terror and hidden expectations that disaster might befall the US in Afghanistan were strategic miscalculations." Hats off to George W. Bush and his administration, in addition to the latest crew of Washington foreign policy think tanks, for the most incredible (and underrated) geopolitical and foreign policy genius the world has ever seen.
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