In article YR0mb.5987$9E1.30006@attbi_s52,
David LOney writes:
Bob McKellar wrote:

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

Now, The Chinese President has one seven year term, elected by the party. It
is anti dictator in the one continual nation that has seen more political
(empirical) takeovers than any other survivmg nation in existence today.

Mao Zedong wanted to ally with the USA but President Eisenhower refused to
hold an audience. Josef Stalin saw Mao.

That's be a good trick, considering that the People's Liberation Army
had been actively engaged in combat with the U.S. and U.N. forces for
two years before Eisenhower became President.

There really is nothing to worry about unless Korea does go balistic.

The U.S. itself has very little to worry about if the DPRK does Pull a
Cagney (Top O' the World, Ma!). The ROK and Japan would certainly get
mussed up, and the Chinese and Russians have the Great Bad Luck of
being downwind. (Into every life some fallout must rain)
My bet is that if the DPRK goes ape, Japan and the Republic of Korea
will be licking their wounds for a few decades - and the DPRK will end
up being inhabited by rats & roaches. The only extra is whether they
plow salt into the fields, much as happened to Carthage.

--
Pete Stickney
A strong conviction that something must be done is the parent of many
bad measures. -- Daniel Webster