Rumsfeld: China Sending 'Mixed Signals'

[callady]

Rumsfeld: China Sending 'Mixed Signals'


Wednesday October 19, 2005 11:16 AM

By ROBERT BURNS

AP Military Writer

BEIJING (AP) - Complaining of ``mixed signals'' from China, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld said Wednesday the communist government must demonstrate more clearly its interest in improving U.S.-China relations. He also lectured party officials on the lessons of democracy and free speech.

Rumsfeld cited a ``rapid, non-transparent'' buildup of the Chinese military and said this makes other countries, including the United States, wonder whether Beijing will hold to a peaceful path.

Rumsfeld also became the first foreigner to visit the headquarters of the Second Artillery, which has commanded China's strategic nuclear missile force since 1966. It was a visit that U.S. officials had repeatedly requested in recent years, and Rumsfeld's aides said it provided valuable insights.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-535...

[Junkdrawer]

1. Translation: We want to takeover Iran and these bullies won't let us...

Waaaaaaa Waaaaaa

[Boo Boo]

23. Here's my translation:

"Gee whiz, maybe it was a mistake for us to come over here and build all this industrial capacity for you guys while gutting our own. All that technology transfer prolly wasn't a good idea either. Although, since you have more spies in my country than all other nations put together, you probably would have gotten it anyway, huh? Boy, that sure is big Navy you're building... Hey! is that an anti-satelite weapon?..."

"Ooops."

[Junkdrawer]

27. The Chinese are second only to us in their dependency on foreign oil...

I've always maintained that our desperate need to control the oil in the near east is directly related to trying to control China.

[malaise]

31. The US is clueless about

Chinese foreign policy. They don't have a clue about Chinese culture and the meaning of 3000 plus years of civilivation. It's the same with the Middle East. Ignorance mixed with arrogance is very dangerous.
Rummy will learn.

[HysteryDiagnosis]

2. Rumsfeld... China impersonating U.S. nt.

[Orsino]

3. Then stop sending mixed signals on Taiwan. n/t

[DoYouEverWonder]

4. This is from the Master of Mixed Signals

I don't even think the right side of Rummie knows what the left side is doing most of the time.

[shance]

8. I thought he was the Master of Lies?

n/t

[MadisonProgressive]

5. NO!! Not the notorious mexed missages!!

[pinniped]

6. I FN knew this crap would be in the article:

--Dummy also lectured party officials on the lessons of democracy and free speech.--

They would've harvested his brain but it is severely deficient.

Maybe this asshole forgot, but this POS and his cronies are the biggest killers of the 21st century thus far. Barring natural disasters of course.

--Dumbshit cited a ``rapid, non-transparent'' buildup of the Chinese military and said this makes other countries, including the United States, wonder whether Beijing will hold to a peaceful path.--

I bet the Chinese told him to F-off.

[raccoon]

13. That's the response he deserved.

Whining to the Chinese, "but you're not doing the way we want you to!"

Earth to Rummy and other neocons: It's not that easy to bully BIG countries.

[sweepster]

19. Yes your right

Pretty easy to push around countries like afghanistan that had NO air force and no tanks and Iraq that had a little air force but did not fly any planes off the ground.

China is building up it's forces like it is going out of style.

[sendero]

7. Thanks to 15 years of playing footsie with China..

.... in order to enrich American corporations (and Clinton is as guilty as anyone) we are now in no position to tell China anything.

China is very close to where is call literally tell folks like Rummy to "fuck off".

[depakid]

10. They're pretty much already there

but the Chinese are nothing if not patient... no sense in being hasty while your adversary is digging itself deeper and deeper into a hole!

[shance]

9. This should be of concern. Nothing Rumsfeld does is good for this country

n/t

[0007]

11. I don't know who's worse, Bolton or Rumsfeld?

I think it is a dead heat.

[shance]

16. Isnt that a good question!

I'd say you're right.

[raccoon]

12. WTF?? Just when I think these creeps couldn't be any more

hypocritical:

" also lectured party officials on the lessons of democracy and free speech."

You mean, Diebold democracy? And "free speech zones?"

[JNelson6563]

14. Considering Rummy's a living, breathing contradiction

his complaints are laughable.

[cliss]

28. Yes. And let's face it: it takes one to know one.

RumsFool, if anybody, should be the Grand Wizard of Mexed Missages.

He lies, obfuscates, slides on the truth, skates, hums and haws, and Skis right through those congressional hearings. I've heard him, plenty of times. I know how he operates.

Thanks for posting the link, Callady.

[nookiemonster]

15. Hey Rummy, did you get the latest communique from Beijing?

They don't give a rat's ass what you think. Incoherent, gestering fool.

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

17. China is the LAST nation these idiots want to piss off

They could wreck our economy without even breaking stride, and Rummy the Dummy is insulting them? Jeez, wot a maroon.

[Tight_rope]

18. Not much can be said about RummytheDummy!...n/t

[sweepster]

20. We need to send more jobs to china to build up their middle class...

then they will buy more goods from us. (major sarc)

BTW: Any country that makes such cute stuffed animals and toys can't be a threat-can they??

[nookiemonster]

21. Great observation!

It kinda ranks up there with "Giving large tax breaks to corporations so they can reinvest it in American workers and technology", don't it?

HAR!

BTW, Welcome to DU.

Also, try the thingey. It's nifty.

[aquart]

22. "Must"????

Somebody lock this idiot up where he can't hurt anybody.

[noonwitch]

24. China is going to be a big problem in the near future/population issues

With their one child policy, and the lack of females, they will be looking to their neighbors, like Taiwan or Vietnam, for women.

[donkeyotay]

25. Still lecturing everyone

Rumsfeld cited a ``rapid, non-transparent'' buildup of the Chinese military and said this makes other countries, including the United States, wonder whether Beijing will hold to a peaceful path.

Hello pot, meet kettle:

" Gen. Cao Gangchuan cited a "rapid, non-transparent" buildup of the American military and said this makes other countries, including China, wonder whether Washington will hold to a peaceful path."

Knucklehead neocons. Well, you made them strong while you were making us weak, now you're going to lecture them about power?

[Rex]

26. Rummy telling China it needs to 'straighten up' is like

Satan complaining about all the evil in the world.

[daleo]

29. Doesn't Rumsfeld have enough wars yet?

The man's a certified lunatic.

[callady]

30. As to why

South China Sea Region
The South China Sea region is the world's second busiest international sea lane. More than half of the world's supertanker traffic passes through the region's waters. In addition, the South China Sea region contains oil and gas resources strategically located near large energy-consuming countries.

The South China Sea encompasses a portion of the Pacific Ocean stretching roughly from Singapore and the Strait of Malacca in the southwest, to the Strait of Taiwan (between Taiwan and China) in the northeast (see the footnote for a more precise definition). The area includes more than 200 small islands, rocks, and reefs, with the majority located in the Paracel and Spratly Island chains. Many of these islands are partially submerged islets, rocks, and reefs that are little more than shipping hazards not suitable for habitation; the total land area of the Spratly Islands is less than 3 square miles. The islands are important, however, for strategic and political reasons, because ownership claims to them are used to bolster claims to the surrounding sea and its resources.

The South China Sea is rich in natural resources such as oil and natural gas. These resources have garnered attention throughout the Asia-Pacific region. Asia's economic growth rates have been among the highest in the world, and this economic growth will be accompanied by an increasing demand for energy. Between now and 2025, oil consumption in developing Asian countries is expected to rise by 3.0% annually on average, with more than one-third of this increase coming from China alone. If this growth rate is maintained, oil demand for these nations will increase from about 14.5 million barrels per day in 2000 to nearly 29.8 million barrels per day by 2025.

http://www.eia.doe.gov/emeu/cabs/schina.html

[TexasLawyer]

32. The Chinese don't need an army

to defeat America. BushCo has mismanaged our tax system, corrupted our government, committed us to a war that is costing us billions of dollars a week, and made us into the debtor nation we are today.

America's economy is sitting in the electric chair. The Chinese have their finger on the button that can fry us crispy as KFC.

They can push that button any time they want to.

[madmark]

33. One of the downsides about losing the moral highground because

you engage in preemptive wars on false pretenses is that no takes you seriously when you complain about other's military buildups.

[Deja Q]

34. Rumdrinker ought to tell US corporations not to trade with the enemy.

You know, treasonous things like that.

Doomsday clock: 23:59:02

[madmark]

35. Or he could threaten the Chinese by not letting them buy any

more US treasury notes.....oh, wait a minute, that would spike our interest rates and trash our economy......nevermind.

[steely]

36. Headline: Pot Calls Kettle Black n/t

[oblivious]

37. Rumsfeld to China: Citizens don't like being misled.

Mr Rumsfeld warned China's next generation of leaders in Beijing that limiting democratic freedoms of speech and information could have "dramatic" consequences once people realised they had been misled.

Speaking from first-hand experience he might have added.

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/...