China's power based on state terror

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(And what's the difference with Bush/GOP control of America?)

By Paul Lin???

Saturday, Jul 24, 2004,Page 8

Over the past six months, China has been continuously advocating its new "peaceful rise" position. But no matter how we look at it, a more suitable name to describe this process would be "rise by terror."

This "peaceful rise" idea was proposed for the first time in Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao's (???) speech on Dec. 10 last year during a speech at Harvard University. "China today is a country undergoing reform and opening-up and a is rising power dedicated to peace," Wen was quoted as saying in the Harvard Gazette.

In a symposium to commemorate the 110th anniversary of Mao Zedong's (???) birth on Dec. 26 last year, general secretary of the Communist Party and President Hu Jintao (???) said China would "adhere to the development road of a peaceful rise." On March 14 this year during the 10th National People's Congress, Wen outlined the features of this so-called "peaceful rise:" The rise of China will not stand in the way or pose a threat to any other country; it will not be achieved at the expense of any other country; and China does not seek hege-mony now, nor will it seek hegemony even after it becomes powerful.

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