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May 26, 2006

Two (Track) China Policy

 

 

Some who happened to hear Secretary Rice’s interview with talk radio host Laura Ingraham earlier this week might have noticed the interesting juxtaposition served up between State’s apparent China assessment and that of the Pentagon, which the same day released its upgraded assessment of China’s military threat (one that we are continuing to financially feed and encourage with weak diplomacy). Fortunately, more and more are finally catching on.

 

But naturally, China had nothing but guilty tantrums for the blue-teamer Pentagon report.

 

China Confidential:

 

[Chinese] state media quoted foreign ministry spokesman Liu Jianchao as saying that China was "strongly resentful of and firmly opposed to ... the 2006 China Military Power Report."

 

The 58-page document, according to Liu, reflected a "Cold War mentality" and an attempt to "wantonly interfere in China's internal affairs."

 

First, I would love to hear what China means by the phrase “to wantonly interfere in … internal affairs.” Maybe China excludes from its definition meddling in foreign elections, stealing technology, and attempting to influence the political lives of Americans of Chinese descent to support the motherland else their family members back home should suffer. Actually, that all sort of sounds like some pretty good evidence of a Sino Cold War mentality (even without their other meddlings outside this country), doesn’t it.

 

Secondly, I think we’d all love for China to point out the portions of the content of the report with which China disagrees. On the other hand, I’m sure dictators are handicapped by the need only to make inane assertions with their own press without having to ever back them up with reason, so we can’t expect too much out of Beijing.

 

That final item is one of the reasons dictatorships are inherently weak. For a bunch of die-hard Communists, they sure seem to lose the plot of Darwinism: Survival of the fittest occurs through the strengthening of the better through resistance. Since China’s Communist Party does not allow itself to be challenged internally, it broadcasts to the world it is ideologically very weak or destined to become so through fainéant insulation.

 

It’s not lacking importance however that we deal with China for what it is, rather than what we wish it had been. Right now, China is the major player and supplier behind every rogue nation and two-bit Islamic terrorist state with which the US is dealing. China has made it clear through ongoing relationships with these entities, along with its moves to consolidate partnerships and political singularity with states in the Americas, not to mention war-mongering remarks that have been emanating from its leaders for over a decade, that it is preparing for war with the US. In other words, China is behaving just like a Communist country would be expected to behave. The surprise of it among some here in the State Department and elsewhere is the only astonishing aspect.

 

Once again, it is going to require conservatives to save the day, just as conservatives did with the Soviets. The Rockefeller Republican types and Democrats may loathe conservatives, but they must also thank them.

 

 

 

Posted by Martin at May 26, 2006 02:23 AM

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