China Lays Into 'Bush Doctrine' Ahead of U.S. Poll

Reuters ^ | Oct. 31, 2004 | Reuters

[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.

"END OF EMPIRE"

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."

[whershey]

If something like this is printed in a Chinese newspaper you can bet money that it's the governments position. The reason China is speaking out is because they have just signed a huge oil agreement with Iran. The last thing they want is GW back stirring up the pot.

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2004-10/30/content_2157826.htm

BEIJING, Oct. 30 (Xinhuanet) -- China's oil giant Sinopec Group has signed a $70 billion oil and natural gas agreement with Iran, which is China's biggest energy deal with the No. 2 OPEC producer.

Under a memorandum of understanding signed Thursday, Sinopec Group will buy 250 million tons of liquefied natural gas over 30 years from Iran and develop the giant Yadavaran field.

Iran is also committed to export 150,000 barrels per day of crude oil to China for 25 years at market prices after commissioning of the field.

Iran's oil Minister Bijan Zanganeh, who is on a two-day visit to Beijing pursuing closer ties, said Iran is China's biggest oil supplier and wants to be its long-term business partner.

Official figures show that China imported 226 million tons of oil in2003, about 13 percent of which coming from Iran.

Beijing expects to secure foreign energy supplies by the deals for its economy, which has turned China into a major oil importer but suffers severe power shortages.

[TythosEternal]

I agree that China's going to inevitably decrease in population big-time. I'm tempted to move for a Tom Clancy-styled recognize-Taiwan-as-an-independant-nation threat if China becomes too big of a thorn. On the other hand, recent Chinese evolution towards a capitalist system within a communist shell has produced a fascinating situation in which, ideally, the butterfly need only to emerge from the cocoon.

[Always Independent]

What do you expect from a country that got their asses kicked by the the vietnamese?

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Well, Kerry sure is popular with those other States that are in competition with us.....They must know something....can't be good for our citizens..

Vote for Bush.....

Recommend Unholy Alliance as a must read book:

Unholy Alliance

by David Horowitz
Hardcover - (September 2004) - $27.95

In this tour de force on the most important issue of our time, David Horowitz, confronts the paradox of how so many Americans, including the leadership of the Democratic Party, could turn against the War on Terror. He finds an answer in a political Left that shares a view of America as the “Great Satan” with America’s radical Islamic enemies. In a remarkable exploration of the “Mind of the Left,” Horowitz traces the evolution of American radicalism from its Communist past to its “anti-war” present. He then shows how this Left was able to turn the Democratic Party presidential campaign around and reshape its views on the War on Terror.

[spyone]

Ideally, yes, but what would make them make such a statement at this exact time unless hostility is their intent. I haven't posted soley based on this release. I notice over the last few years similar very hostile statements. I will notice the timing more closely from now on. Their mentality seems to be we are the enemy of the future. Forward thinking minds here should view them as such.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

fyi

[EaglesUpForever]

Let's see, Kerry has 2 votes, so far: Osama bin Laden, and China.

We can expect he'll carry Iran, North Korea, and France, as well. Unfortunately for Kerry, he's not so popular in locations where there are actual electoral votes.

[Finalapproach29er]

You guys are such suckers/chumps.

This is calculated reverse psychology. Kerry/unions would hurt their textiles, Bush will yield to the free market.

Do you really think a top diplomat-minister would make an incindiary remark 48 hours before an election without a purpose?

Bush's uncle is head of the US-China Chamber of Commerce for pete's sake. Bush causes them fewer problems.

[JasonC]

They don't do much good if you keep them a secret. Believe whatever you like. The question is, is red China certain they would be nuked if they try to invade? No reason they shouldn't be, when they support this.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

President Bush wants us back on the Moon, this time to use its resources to build a space economy, secure our military and civilian satellites and to build a highway into space.

The Chinese are working to get there first.

Which ideology will arrive first to establish their principles?

Bush wants it to be us.

Kerry I'm sure has a "plan."

[spyone]

Not necessarily secret to China.

[paudio]

This is a country where the Han majority clashed with the Hui Muslim and leave 150 people dead just yesterday.

[Fiddlstix]

Ping

[mlocher]

"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.

at least he got that line correct!

[mlocher]

well stated.

[JasonC]

Oh right, they make sure to tell China, but they want to keep it a secret from Burkina Faso, of course, that makes sense. The kind of sense that is...

[montag813]

Our enemies--from Al Queda to China--are salivating at the prospect of a Kerry Presidency. If Gallup is right and Americans are stupid enough to give it to them, we will have voted ourselves into historical irrelevance. A Kerry victory would be a victory for Stalin, Brezhnev, Meo Zedong, Ho-Chi Minh, Kim Il Sung, Ibn Saud, Nasser, Khomeni, Gorbachev, Hussein, Chirac, et al. It would represent a delayed defeat of America in the Cold War. A Kerry Presidency would make Jimmy Carter look like Mt Rushmore material by comparison. We must not let this disaster occur. Let us all pray from our very souls and work our hearts out to GOTV and convince our fellow citizens not to be fooled by this dangerous charlatan and his grinning MSM jester. WE MUST STOP KERRY NO MATTER THE COST.

[huac]

"China is executing more prisoners each year, reports Amnesty International-1,079 in 1992 and 1,419 in 1993. Human-rights advocates charge that the Chinese government is committing legalized murder to harvest body organs from healthy prisoners..."

http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1453/is_n6_v42/ai_16878703

These are the people who are concerned about the way the United States is bringing democracy to Iraq...

[SaltyJoe]

It means that Communist Beijing is losing it's North Korean Al-Qaeda. China doesn't have IBMs or a blue water navy. If the CCP wants to attack us and our American way of life, they'll have to do it directly an not through a bellicose nation. Wahhabism has failed in its efforts to promote pan-Islamic militantism and Communism will fall too.

[Avenger]

China has been on my boycott list for years. Everyone should know that whatever U.S. leaders think, China's leaders views America as its #1 enemy. No doubt about it.