An Issue Not Talked About Often…
Written by Mark Harris on March 11th, 2007But Fred Thompson brought it up…
We’ve got Chinese government who we’re mutually economically dependent upon right now. But you know, they’re still a totalitarian government that is building up their military tremendously and has 200 missiles pointed toward Taiwan.
Besides his answer on campaign finance reform I think he really hit all the big points and sure sounds like he’s running, but wants to see if John McCain is going to pull it together or not.
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Yeah, China really gets overlooked. They could very well be our next “Cold War” opponents and nobody is really paying much attention to what they are doing.
We have a cordial relationship with them, but they are not our friends.
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The only time I ever attended CPAC Thompson did a panel with Chris Cox on just this subject. It will be interesting to see if this moves others in the Republican camp to at least talk about China (Duncan Hunter does not count). This administrations policies in the region have been, at best, ambiguous.
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“This administrations policies in the region have been, at best, ambiguous.”
Which is ironic considering the dramatic start to the Bush years with the plane collision over Hainan island.
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Excellent point. I recall the PRC fighter pilot’s name was 王伟, which led to some (not particularly sensitive) jokes in America. The final result is one of the dumbest Wikipedia arguments I’ve ever seen on his English language entry.
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Here’s an interesting website on Wang Wei: http://wangwei.netor.com
(No English version, sorry guys!)
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Alex! I thought the comments were loosened!
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I guess if I ever go to China I already have my Chinese name set up for me: Wang Wei (just imagine saying Langley like a Chinese person, who can’t pronounce the L’s).
LOL.
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Actually they can pronounce L’s, that is more of a Japanese problem. Still I see the potential.