Some of my friends think I am anti-China. I do not know the basis of it but I am helpless as I am not entitled to judge myself.
Let me share with you an important information that the US President Eisenhower rejected the idea of nuclear attack against China ( not the USSR, nor any East European country)in 1958, when seeds of China's differences with the USSR were sown. I believe this was authored by Mao to dislodge Teng Tsiaoping from the post of secretary-general of CPC along with Liu Shao Chi. That had less of ideology than factionalism (read power).
We were all under the impression that the US imperialism was encircling China. It appears that this idea was shelved in the early years of Eisenhower.
The USA today seems disinterested in political disengagement with China.
Read the two news items.
Sankar Ray
CIA director: China is not an 'inevitable enemy'
From Pam Benson ,CNN National Security Producer 30 Apr 08 (http://edition.cnn.com/2008/US/04/30/cia.director.challenges/index.html?iref=topnews)
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The director of the CIA told an audience at Kansas State University on Wednesday that China is "not the inevitable enemy" of the United States.
Michael Hayden spoke about three main challenges facing the United States: burgeoning populations, China's increasing economic power and America's prickly relationship with Europe.
Hayden said the world's population is expected to grow by 45 percent to 9 billion people by midcentury, mostly in countries that cannot sustain such growth, such as Asia, Africa and the Middle East. Combine that with the likely mass migration to developed countries, and resources will be strained, leading to an increased risk of violence, civil unrest or extremism, he said.
China will become an economic and political competitor to the United States, he said, but should not be treated as "an inevitable enemy."
Although the rapid growth of the Chinese military could pose a threat to the United States and Taiwan, Hayden said, he believes that the nation's aim of military modernization is about "projecting strength" and demonstrating that it has "great-power status."
Hayden did warn that China is focusing too narrowly on its own objectives.
"If Beijing begins to accept greater responsibility for the health of the international system -- as all global powers should -- we will remain on a constructive, even if competitive path," he said.
"If not, the rise of China begins to look more adversarial."
Differences over the war in Iraq and the fight against terrorism continue to strain relations with Europe, Hayden said. Although Europe and the United States agree about the urgent threat of terrorism, he said the United States considers itself at war with terrorists.
Europe sees terrorism as primarily "an internal, law-enforcement problem."
He questioned whether "the United States and Europe will come to share the same views of the 21st century, as we did for the last half of the 20th century, and then forge a common approach to security."
Hayden said the global context has changed considerably from the struggle of the Cold War, when America dominated the world economically, politically and militarily.
"In this new century, the world will be far more complex, and the capacity of others -- both nation-states and non-state actors -- to influence world events will grow," he said.
The "overriding challenge" for the intelligence community will be to "do a better job of understanding cultures, histories, religions and traditions that are not our own," he said.
He warned "against viewing the world exclusively through an American prism," saying that "while we cherish and live our own values, we must know and appreciate those of others."
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Eisenhower overruled nuke attack against China in '58 April 30, 2008 -- Updated 2221 GMT (0621 HKT (http://edition.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/04/30/us.nuclear.ap/index.html)
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Eisenhower overruled some of his military commanders in summer 1958, ordering them not to use nuclear weapons against China if communist forces blockaded the Taiwan Strait, according to declassified Air Force documents.
Eisenhower "made it clear that the Chinese would be given a warning with conventional explosives before he would authorize dropping of the deadlier ordnance" on Chinese territories, according to the documents made public by George Washington University's National Security Archive.
The president had the support of a congressional resolution to use force in defense of Taiwan. His decision not to use nuclear weapons still left them available if needed for subsequent attacks, according to the newly released narrative by a contemporary Air Force historian, Bernard Nalty.
The top-secret document was one in a collection obtained by a freedom-of-information lawsuit filed by the Archive after more than a decade of requests that the documents be declassified, said William Burr of the Archive.
As the crisis grew, according to the papers, five B-47 bombers on Guam went on alert in mid-August to conduct nuclear raids against Chinese airfields.
The idea of using nuclear weapons to prevent the Chinese from using ships and aircraft to isolate Nationalist-held islands in the strait was accepted by Eisenhower's Cabinet -- except Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, who was on vacation.
The chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, Air Force Gen. Nathan Twining, had explained at a Cabinet meeting that U.S. planes would drop 10- to 15-kiloton nuclear bombs in the vicinity of Amoy, a coastal city on the Taiwan strait now called Xiamen.
The idea was that the Chinese would have to lift their blockade. Otherwise, the United States would proceed to attack Chinese airfields.
But Eisenhower ruled out the initial use of nuclear weapons, concluding that the fallout would cause civilian casualties in China and on Taiwan, risking nuclear escalation.
The Pacific Air Force commander, Gen. Lawrence Kuter, whose operations plan had assumed the United States would carry out nuclear strikes as necessary to defeat attacking Chinese communists, characterized the idea of a "limited response" as disastrous.
As tensions grew, Chinese artillery fired thousands of rounds against Big and Little Quemoy, but there was no evidence that a Chinese invasion was in the works. Eisenhower approved recommendations by the Joint Chiefs of Staff to strengthen Taiwan's air defenses and the Seventh Fleet. The U.S.-backed nationalist air force shot down 32 communist MiG fighters during the crisis.
In October, China announced a ceasefire. Shelling subsequently resumed and then tapered off, possibly because the Chinese concluded that the United States might reply with its own use of force.
Copyright 2008 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
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