"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.
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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.
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.
With Washington focused on Iraq and its war on terror, and Americas-wide trade talks at an impasse, Beijing hopes to grab favorable trade terms and niches left open by United States.
"In China's case it can steal a market from the United States," said economist Alexandre Freitas Barbosa at the Prospectiva Consultancy in Sao Paulo.
Washington has effectively turned the focus of the American public on Iraq yet the real battle is being waged and won by China. Throughout the world countries who cannot afford not to enhance their relationship with China are turning to the dragon as their new leader.
Bush will go down in history as the president whose notorious lack of scope lost America’s dominance.
"We can't afford not to enhance our relationship with China at this point in our history,"
The Howard Government has given its most upbeat assessment yet on a free trade agreement with China, claiming it would be "arguably more important" than Australia's bilateral pact with the US. #msg-4438656
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Brazil Recognizes China as a 'Market Economy' Fri Nov 12, 2004 05:06 PM ET
By Andrew Hay BRASILIA, Brazil (Reuters) - Brazil has met Chinese wishes to recognize the Asian country as a "market economy" in a move to solder the two emerging giants' growing commercial ties, the nations' leaders said on Friday.
The recognition by Brazil of China as a market economy came during a visit by Chinese President Hu Jintao and could boost the Latin American country's bid to get more of its farm exports into the world's fastest-growing major economy.
"This position of Brazil will certainly make the conditions of the strategic relationship even richer and will favor economic and trade cooperation," Hu said in a speech in Brasilia.
By granting market economy status to China, Brazil waives rights to raise anti-dumping barriers on Chinese goods and gives an example to other developing countries that Beijing hopes they would follow.
Brazil needs access to the world's most populous nation to fuel exports that will account for about half of Brazil's 2004 economic growth.
But some observers said the country had given away an important bargaining tool in its rush to ship more commodities to China. Around 20 nations, including many Asian countries, have given China the status but Brazil is the biggest.
"China gained much more than Brazil, they paid a very low price for what they got," said Jose Augusto de Castro, director of the Brazilian Foreign Trade Association.
China failed to strike a deal with Brazil on soy, the Latin American country's biggest single export there. Brazil had hoped to prevent another row after China blacklisted many of its soy shippers earlier this year, saying their loads were tainted by fungicide.
It cost Brazil an estimated $1 billion in lost soy trade.
China entered the World Trade Organization in 2001 as a "non-market economy" and faces anti-dumping barriers to exports until it gains "market economy" status.
With its voracious appetite for food and raw materials, China is keen to make Brazil its Latin American grains basket, a leading supplier of minerals like iron ore and invest in Brazil's ports and railways to get goods to its shores.
Trade Minister Luiz Fernando Furlan said Chinese investment in the next two years could reach more than $10 billion.
Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva signed a string of agreements with his Chinese counterpart, among them deals to boost Chinese pork exports to Brazil and Brazilian exports of chicken and beef to China.
Brazilian Agriculture Minister Roberto Rodrigues said the deals would amount to $800 million in exports in a few years.
"As of the moment Brazil guaranteed to recognize China as a market economy we noted a friendlier approach by the Chinese government on trade," he said.
China is poised to become Brazil's second-largest trade partner in 2004 after the United States. Beijing expects trade to increase fivefold by 2010 to $35 billion. Brazil, meanwhile, provides only around one percent of China's imports.
With Washington focused on Iraq and its war on terror, and Americas-wide trade talks at an impasse, Beijing hopes to grab favorable trade terms and niches left open by United States.
"In China's case it can steal a market from the United States," said economist Alexandre Freitas Barbosa at the Prospectiva Consultancy in Sao Paulo.
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