While in the neighborhood, Rummy attacks China
(picking up a thread from yesterday on the apparent u.s. strategy of provoking other nations...)
oh, and i suppose OUR military spending doesn't upset ANY balances...??
(sometimes i try to put myself in the mindset of an alien visiting from another planet - no smart remarks, please - trying to understand human beings and what's happening on earth... then i go get some ibuprofen...)
Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld, in an unusually blunt public critique of China, said Saturday [in a keynote address at an Asian security conference in Singapore] that Beijing's military spending threatened the delicate security balance in Asia and called for an emphasis instead on political freedom and open markets.
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Washington's stance regarding Beijing appears to be growing more critical. The United States has accused China of manipulating the value of its currency, for example, in order to increase exports, and of exerting heavy-handed pressure on Taiwan.
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oh, and i suppose OUR military spending doesn't upset ANY balances...??
(sometimes i try to put myself in the mindset of an alien visiting from another planet - no smart remarks, please - trying to understand human beings and what's happening on earth... then i go get some ibuprofen...)
Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld, in an unusually blunt public critique of China, said Saturday [in a keynote address at an Asian security conference in Singapore] that Beijing's military spending threatened the delicate security balance in Asia and called for an emphasis instead on political freedom and open markets.
[...]
Washington's stance regarding Beijing appears to be growing more critical. The United States has accused China of manipulating the value of its currency, for example, in order to increase exports, and of exerting heavy-handed pressure on Taiwan.
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posted by profmarcus at
6/04/2005
