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China Condemns Bush, United States Incapable

"Both history and practices of 'the myth of empires' have demonstrated that the pre-emptive strategy will bring the Bush administration an outcome that it is most unwilling to see, that is, absolute insecurity of the 'American Empire' and its demise because of expansion it cannot cope with," Qian said.

"(It) has made the United States even more unpopular in the international community than its war in Vietnam ... The 21st century is not the 'American century'. That does not mean that the United States does not want the dream. Rather it is incapable of realizing the goal."

Strong words from the dragon. China is a country little into excesses. If they say it, they mean it.

During Bush’s tenure China has been able to move unimpeded at a rapid rate. It would seem that for every move Bush has made China has countered. The dragon turns and watches as the hapless Bush exhausts the resources and manpower of the United States in one exercise of futility after another. And when the United States lies spent the monster will reach out with its great claw and steal yet another prize.

-Am

China slams Bush on eve of poll
Monday, November 1, 2004 Posted: 2:00 AM EST (0700 GMT)

Qian says the Iraq war has destroyed the hard-won global anti-terror coalition.


BEIJING, China -- In a hard-hitting commentary on the eve of U.S. elections, China has slammed the White House administration, saying it has destroyed the anti-terror coalition.

Writing in the state newspaper China Daily, Vice Premier Qian Qichen said "the philosophy of the 'Bush Doctrine' is in essence force. It advocates the United States should rule over the whole world with overwhelming force, military force in particular."

The damning commentary from a top official in a nation that America views as a key anti-terror ally is a departure from Beijing's past refusal to comment on U.S. presidential candidates.

It is unclear what prompted the attack.

Chinese officials have refused for weeks to comment on the presidential campaign or on the positions of Bush and his main challenger, Democratic Senator John Kerry.

The commentary in the English-language paper did not mention Kerry, but it is being seen as close as possible to a position on the U.S. election as Beijing has come.

Growing in economic and political influence on the world stage, China has repeatedly expressed its aversion to Bush's unilateralist tendencies and sided with France and Germany in opposition to the Iraq war.

Slamming Bush's policy of creating an "axis of evil" and following pre-emptive strategies in the aftermath of the September 11 attacks on America, Qian said Washington had destroyed the anti-terror coalition, widened the rift between Europe and the United States and worsened conflicts.

"Washington opened a Pandora's box, intensifying intermingled conflicts, such as ethnic and religious ones," Qian, one of the main architects of China's foreign policy, wrote.

Qian stressed that Beijing is also worried about Washington's heightened presence in Central and South Asia and is concerned that it may threaten China's ambitions to be the region's dominant military power.

As Washington goes after terrorists, and the so-called "rogue" or "failed" states that supported them, it has extended its reach into the Middle East, Central Asia, Southeast Asia and Northeast Asia, taking it far beyond the scope of self-defence, he argued.

The invasion of Iraq "has made the United States even more unpopular in the international community than its war in Vietnam," he added.

China has supported the U.S.-led war on terror, but is wary of Bush's intentions.

Qian, who was foreign minister for more than a decade in the late 1980s and early 1990s and is credited with breaking China out of diplomatic isolation after the crackdown on the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests, said the United States bought the trouble onto itself.

The U.S. predicament in Iraq "serves as another example that when a country's superiority psychology inflates beyond its real capability, a lot of trouble can be caused," Qian said.

"But the troubles and disasters the United States has met do not stem from threats by others, but from its own cocksureness and arrogance."

'More hatred'
Referring to the war in Iraq, the vice premier said Bush's policy has simply worked to stoke more Muslim hatred around the world.

"Mounting hostile sentiments among the Muslim world towards the United States following the war have already helped the al Qaeda terrorist network recruit more followers and suicide martyrs," he wrote.

"Instead of dropping, the number of terrorist activities throughout the world is now on the increase."

In Iraq, the United States is far from winning peace for itself and the Arab country, he added.

He argued that many analysts said the Bush administration did not objectively and clearly assess challenges and difficulties facing it when it applied the pre-emptive strategy, and warned of more trouble ahead.

"Both history and practices of 'the myth of empires' have demonstrated that the pre-emptive strategy will bring the Bush administration an outcome that it is most unwilling to see, that is, absolute insecurity of the 'American Empire' and its demise because of expansion it cannot cope with," Qian said.

While U.S.-Chinese relations have improved under Bush's rule, ties have been strained by disputes over trade and Washington's refusal to send home Chinese Muslim detainees from the U.S. military base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

Analysts have told Reuters news agency that China has a slight preference for the incumbent in the U.S. election, realizing that U.S. policy towards China has changed little from administration to administration.

http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/asiapcf/11/01/iraq.china/



Before U.S. Poll, China Criticizes 'Bush Doctrine'
Sun Oct 31, 2004 08:39 PM ET

BEIJING (Reuters) - On the eve of the U.S. election, China criticized the "Bush doctrine" of pre-emptive strikes, said the Iraq war has destroyed the global anti-terror coalition and blamed arrogance for problems dogging the United States around the world.

In a strongly worded commentary, Qian Qichen, one of the main architects of China's foreign policy, said the United States was dreaming if it thought the 21st century was the "American century."

"The Iraq war has ... destroyed the hard-won global anti-terror coalition," Qian said in the article in the English-language China Daily newspaper.

"(It) has made the United States even more unpopular in the international community than its war in Vietnam ... The 21st century is not the 'American century'. That does not mean that the United States does not want the dream. Rather it is incapable of realizing the goal."

The searing article made no mention of Massachusetts Senator John Kerry, the Democratic Party's challenger to President Bush in Tuesday's presidential race.

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