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Politics : Bill Clinton Scandal - SANITY CHECK -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Les H who wrote (42304)	4/14/1999 12:58:00 PM
From: Daniel Schuh	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 67261

Reaching back a bit far in history there, aren't we, Les? Do you think China is the same country now as it was in 1950? Do you think we should go back to our China policy of 1950, which was to ignore the existance of China? Not to mention that the US has had a role in a coup or two in the intervening years, in places somewhat more at a distance to us than Tibet is to China, and there's a few of those good "authoritarians" we installed still hanging on, treating the locals about the same as China treats Tibet. Of course, Chinese control of Tibet goes back a bit farther than that, even, as a quick search reveals: End of Tibet Revolt nytimes.com (dateline: February 11, 1912) As a counterexample, there's Hong Kong. It may not be a democracy now, but then, it never was, except for a few years after the British agreed to surrender it. The idea that China would nuke Taiwan is ludicrous, what would they have to gain by that? Despite the local "if you don't hate Clinton, you must love him" formulation, I don't particularly admire Clinton, but I think somewhat less of the Chinese government than I do of Clinton. Nevertheless, the current demonization of China as an adjunt to the ever popular right wight Clinton demonization doesn't seem to be in the national interest. "Some people in the United States are busy spreading the 'China threat' fallacy and trying to find a new enemy for the United States," said Chinese Ambassador Li Zhao-xing in a speech in Washington in January. It evoked something that former Assistant Defense Secretary Joseph Nye, now dean of the Kennedy School of Government, said in 1995: "If you treat China as an enemy, China will become an enemy." If you think that's a sane policy, well, I guess that's the way it works in this so-called Sanity forum.