[maui_hawaii]

In 1979, China set a radical new course when Deng Xiaoping, the successor to Mao, effectively began to dismantle doctrinaire communism by declaring that "it matters not if a cat is black or white, so long as it catches mice" --

With that statement has China ever abandoned its strategic goals for ultimate super power and power over Asia? What is the "mouse" they are after?

China did not abandon its goal of a utopic China, they just tried a different method of getting there.

The only way they can do what they so desire... is to oppose the US.

[AIG]

"it matters not if a cat is black or white, so long as it catches mice"

He is simply talking about economics here, not world conquest, as your paranoid mind believes. He is saying the economic system employed by a country is not so important as long as it produced real concrete benefits for its citizens in terms of improved standard of living, quality of life, etc.

[PhilDragoo]

It is clear that China has the greatest income discrepancy of the world because it diverts its cash from U.S. trade to Russia for offensive weaponry, leaving its people with little.