Kevin Brooks wrote:
Bob McKellar wrote in message
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We see a China that is stable and prosperous -- a nation
that respects the peace of its neighbors and works to secure
the freedom of its own people.


-G.W. Bush

http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/relea...031022-12.html

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Let's have no more talk of China building offensive
missiles, aircraft and ships.

And let's certainly not make any claims of internal
repression there.

There is nothing to worry about.

Bob McKellar

Gee, Bob, you must have missed the preceeding passage (context is
everything...):

"Today, America and Australia are working with Japan, the Philippines,
Thailand, Indonesia, and Singapore, and other nations to expand trade
and to fight terror, to keep the peace -- the peace in the Taiwan
Straits."

Taken together with your quote, it looks like what he was expressing
was the vision of the China we (and the other folks who live in the
region) want to see, not what is necessarily there now. I don't find
that vision unreasonable--do you?

On a semi-related, but rather OT, note:

Madame Chiang Kai-shek (Soon Mei-ling) apparently died yesterday, at her
Manhattan apartment. She was 106 years old.

-Marc
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