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Strategies & Market Trends : China Warehouse- More Than Crockery -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: RealMuLan who wrote (1977)	12/14/2003 11:07:21 AM
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Editorial: China less competitor, more strategic partner San Antonio Express-News Web Posted : 12/14/2003 12:00 AM China has always held an important role in American foreign policy. Never has that role been more significant than now. From economic issues and the trade deficit to the war against terrorism and North Korean nuclear weapons, China figures prominently in any policy calculation. With American military forces deployed in Iraq and Afghanistan and stretched thin globally, the United States has a critical interest in seeing that potential flashpoints in Asia — such as the Korean peninsula and Taiwan — do not evolve into international crises. In both areas, China's role is indispensable. That's why President Bush was right to reaffirm the "one China" policy on Taiwan and mainland China favored by Beijing when he met last week with Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao in Washington. "We oppose any unilateral decision by either China or Taiwan to change the status quo," Bush said. Taiwanese leaders recently have antagonized Beijing with proposals to include a controversial referendum in March elections. The referendum would demand that China cease threatening the island and remove hundreds of missiles that target it. China views the referendum as a first step toward a formal declaration of independence. Beijing has been working to revive multilateral talks with North Korea, talks that North Korea has conditioned on concessions, including energy aid, from the United States. The Bush administration has demanded that North Korea return to the negotiating table unconditionally with the goal of dismantling its nuclear weapons program "in a verifiable and irreversible way." "We spent a lot of time talking about North Korea here," Bush said after his meeting. "We share a mutual goal, and that is for the Korean peninsula to be nuclear weapons-free." As a candidate for president, Bush described China as a competitor, not a strategic partner. As Bush emerged this week from meetings with Wen, his comments on the full range of Sino-U.S. issues indicate he now views China more as a strategic partner than a competitor. That is a more realistic and responsible position. 12/14/2003 news.mysanantonio.com