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Politics : DON'T START THE WAR -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: PartyTime who wrote (4474)	1/30/2003 7:40:39 AM
From: Brumar89	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 25898

You posted an article about arms sales by Russia to China and said Bush should pay more attention to this rather than Iraq. The last part of the article was about Russia's apparent changing of policy on national missile defense: However, the Kremlin has not only moderated opposition to Bush's missile defense program, in recent days it has indicated a willingness to assist Washington in building the shield. Last week, Putin stated that he did not "rule out possible cooperation with the US in building a missile defense [system]". In an interview published on January 28, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Ivanov stated that the US NMD plans should not hinder bilateral cooperation in missile defense. Hence, Russia is probably rethinking its approach to relations with China, as a joint opposition to US missile-defense plans used to be one of the key elements of the so-called "strategic partnership" between Moscow and Beijing. Perhaps you thought were referring about the rising danger China poses. China may be a problem in the coming decades. The country is still ruled by a "Communist" party but no one there believes in Communism any more. So in the absence of democracy to assess the people's will, what is the CP's basis of legitimacy? Well, the promise that they grow the economy and bring greater prosperity. But there is also the temptation the "Communist" regime will try to stir up nationalist feelings against foreign enemies to build support among the public. Let's face it, we - the US - are the prime candidates for the starring role as foreign enemy. We should hope and pray that democracy takes root on the mainland asap. As democratic nations rarely (perhaps never) go to war with each other.