Reuters: "Rumsfeld warns China on lack of democracy"

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=578&e=2&u=/nm/20050603/ts_nm/security_rumsfeld_dc

SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld warned on Friday that China's failure to match economic freedoms with democratic reforms could raise tensions and undermine its growing influence in the world.

On way to a regional security conference that is expected to focus on China and North Korea, Rumsfeld drew a stark contrast between China and India, the world's largest democracy, which America is courting as a counter-weight to the communist nation.

"We anticipate that the relationship with India will continue to be strengthened. With respect to China, it's not completely clear which way they are going because you have the tension I characterised between the nature of their political system and the nature of their economic system," he told reporters.

But Rumsfeld also said he is making plans for his first visit to China as Pentagon chief later this year.

[whistle]

1. Wait a second, Donald Rumsfeld was brandishing that pistol....

...at a Pentagon news conference? That must have aided in getting some very probing questions from reporters.

[Pacifist Patriot]

2. BREAKING: Zeng Peiyan warns U.S. on lack of democracy.

[NewJeffCT]

3. We also know that China really does have WMD

And, they've sold weapons to terrorists (didn't Iran-Contra involved the Chinese, too?)

And, they have terrorists living within their borders (at least one of their provinces has ongoing problems with separatists)

And, of course, we know that they torture people there.

And, they've threatened their neighbor Taiwan.

So, when do we invade? Right after Neil Bush pays his latest hookers?

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

4. Those hookers were "free" and "unexpected"...

During divorce proceedings against ex-wife Sharon, Neil Bush admits accepting some free Asian poontang on several occasions during business trips. "In Thailand once, I have a pretty clear recollection that there was one time in Thailand and in Hong Kong." Neil claims that the women would knock on his hotel room door, walk in, and have sex with him. He never asked if they were prostitutes, and never paid them.

ATTORNEY: Mr. Bush, you have to admit it's a pretty remarkable thing for a man just to go to a hotel room door and open it and have a woman standing there and have sex with her.

NEIL BUSH: It was very unusual.

http://www.rotten.com/library/sex/prostitution/

[DulceDecorum]

5. Managing China's rising power is an important U.S. objective?

Although managing China's rising power is an important U.S. objective, Rumsfeld has not visited Beijing since becoming defense secretary in 2001. By contrast, Condoleezza Rice went there in March 2005, soon after becoming secretary of state.
"I plan to get to China sometime later this year. We're looking at dates now," Rumsfeld said.
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=578&e=2&u=/nm/20050603/ts_nm/security_rumsfeld_dc

These neocons must think they are more powerful than God.

[Village Idiot]

6. Latest Breaking News: Pot calls Kettle "Black."