Rumsfeld urges China not to act like a pariah state

[dArKeR]

The US should encourage China to move toward a freer system, US Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld said on Thursday, warning of inevitable tensions between its repressive political system and the demands of a modern economy.
"They obviously are moving from a continent power to a regional power and have interests in expanding beyond that," Rumsfeld said. "Now where is it all going to end? I don't know."

Rumsfeld was asked at a luncheon for the Los Angeles World Affairs Council about a Chinese general's recent warning that Beijing would resort to nuclear strikes in a conflict with the US over Taiwan.
http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/front/archives/2005/08/06/2003266609

[DesEtoiles]

1. With a straight face Dumbsefeld said that, huh?

[dbeach]

2. China today ..Syria yesterday..the glamerous life style ..

of a chikenhawk traitor

RUMMY!get ready for your indictment..
Fitzie got ya all wrapped this time..

[Gronk Groks]

3. Talk about calling the Kettle black...

...he can't see it can he? This administration is turning AMERICA into a pariah state and he can't see it.

BTW doesn't the Chinese own most of our National Debt???
Economic Implosion anyone?

[DBoon]

4. Rumsfeld is a true master of irony

"move toward a freer society". I almost snorted my latte through my nose reading that.

Off the record, I bet Rumsfeld got some really good advice from the Chinese on political control and opression, and he in turn gave them lessons on unbridgled avarice.

Then they agreed to say the "politically correct" things on the record

[wli]

5. Rummy urges the US to fascism, China to democracy

Who the fsck is he working for?

[getmeouttahere]

6. Just 10 posts up from this one....

Karen Hughes says we must understand before we can be understood, but then unravels it all with "but I am confident our ideals will prevail"

then I read what Rummy is spewing...

maybe it's dimentia...I can't think of anything else to explain their unfuckingbelievable hypocricy and arrogance

[cliss]

7. Look at these statements......

"The US should encourage China to move toward a freer system..."

What does the US have to do with China's system here? China is going to do what it's going to do, regardless of what we think about it. Also keep in mind China is not our friend, and probably never will be our friend. They are our trading partner and potential enemy.

Look at the next one: "They are moving from a continent power to a regional power.." Is he saying China is decentralizing? I don't believe this is true. China's strength has been its centralization. It's what allowed them to move from poverty to the fastest-growing economy on earth, for about 4 decades now.

Is anybody else thinking what I'm thinking? That he's.....

[getmeouttahere]

8. I've long since moved beyond maddening...

to describe these people.

they own us, lock, stock and barrel