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Bull in a China Shop
http://www.lewrockwell.com/margolis/margolis28.html
Building and sustaining good relations with China is and will remain America’s most important foreign policy challenge for the next decade.
The United States must devise ways of living with China’s economic competition, surging demand for resources, and inevitable growing geopolitical influence in Asia and the western Pacific while avoiding confrontation. Two highly nationalistic, muscular, and assertive great powers must somehow learn to co-exist.
The visit was downgraded to an economy-class event known as an "official visit." This was a huge insult and major loss of face for President Hu and 1.2 billion Chinese. I was surprised that Hu did not cancel the visit.
Am I the only one who can see the contradiction?
What is needed, in my opinion, is the faintest measure of, even pretentious, empathy.
Hu, an individual, may have chosen to avoid the pomp and preposterous notion eluding to any legitimizing focus of public and private attention upon an active mass murderer who, by the way, is contemplating the release of nuclear fallout - in the worst way possible i.e. covert, deceptive, criminally aggressive, and very likely to ensure mutual destruction of the entire human race forever.
And this is not my personal 'sky is falling' "Conspiracy Theory", rather, the stated, path chosen by "The Decider" albeit not the intended reasons for the "First Strike".
How can one tell when "The Decider" is lying?
I think Hu can answer that question and I don't think I need an interpreter.
Last edited on Wed May 3rd, 2006 07:51 pm by Joe Kelley