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Condoleezza Rice, Colin Powell view China as a challenge By Charles Snyder in Washington, D.C. ChinaOnline News (26 December 2000) With the nomination of Colin Powell as secretary of state and Condoleezza Rice as national security adviser, U.S. President-elect George W. Bush has selected two veteran strategic thinkers reared in the Cold War conflict with the Soviet Union, but who have little real experience with China. While Bush labeled China a "strategic competitor" during his campaign, comments by both Powell and Rice indicate that their view of China—and foreign policy in general—is not quite as stark. "China is a rising power, and any rising power with unresolved interests will be a challenge," Rice said in a recent speech. "It would be wrong to think of China as an enemy, but it is not wrong to think of China as a challenge," she told a Nov. 16 meeting of the Fletcher Conference, a gathering in Arlington, Va. of defense leaders, lawmakers and scholars looking at national security issues. While noting that China resents the U.S. presence in Asia, Washington should keep in mind that China is changing and must therefore be careful to deal with its own security interests without alienating Beijing, she said. A long-time scholar of Soviet affairs and a former provost at Stanford University, Rice cut her teeth in government service as a top Soviet expert in the National Security Council under Brent Scowcroft in the Bush administration. She was part of a team that also included then-Defense Secretary Dick Cheney and then-Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Colin Powell. During President-elect Bush's recent campaign, she acted as chief foreign policy adviser. Rice is reportedly cramming on China, and is said to be a quick study. She supports continued engagement and trade with Beijing and has said economic change in China will lead to pressure for political liberalization. She has warned that Washington's influence over China's human rights record will be limited, a view that fits in with her broader one that the United States has spent too much time over human rights at the expense of more basic strategic interests. Rice is also expected to favor the continuation of the overall policy the United States has followed on Taiwan since the Taiwan Relations Act of 1979. Powell’s influence Despite Rice's credentials in the new Bush foreign policy team, it is retired General Powell who is expected to have the biggest clout in international affairs by dint of his overall popularity, long-term experience in the politics of Washington, and extensive military background. Powell is generally considered to be cautious in foreign affairs, having opposed American military intervention in Kosovo and strongly resisted the American effort to save Kuwait after Iraq’s invasion in 1990. While his views on China are not well-known, he is a proponent of greater trade with the country, and he has pledged to try to work with China and not view it as an adversary. "We will work with those nations in the world that are transforming themselves, nations such as China and Russia," he said at a brief press conference after his nomination on Dec. 16. "We will work with them not as potential enemies and not as adversaries, but not yet as strategic partners, but as nations that are seeking their way." "We will have areas of agreement and areas of difference, and we will discuss them in rational ways, letting then know of our values, letting them know of the principles that we hold dear," Powell said. Powell also took a cautious stance on a National Missile Defense system, which Bush has pledged to build. While he supports the defense shield as an "essential part of our overall strategic force posture," Powell said that the new administration would have to make a "full assessment of the state of technology" before going ahead. He also said before any decision is made, the United States would have to hold discussions with its allies and with "other nations in the world that possess strategic offensive weapons," including, presumably, China. Powell said such negotiations would be "tough." With Beijing strongly opposed to the proposed missile shield, Powell's cautious stance could help ease a major irritant in Sino-U.S. relations. 63.216.153.211