Slap the face first, and then ask a favor!

I heard over the radio the excerpts of a speech President Bush is going to give in China tomorrow. He is going urge China to become more democratic*. The neighboring nation Taiwan is going to be praised as a country where democracy thrives. These careless remarks are going anger the Chinese Leaders immensely – especially the comparison with Taiwan. They will lose face before their own people, which they will never forgive. (The Chinese are still sore about Hillary Clinton who made a speech in there, a few years ago, criticizing their treatment of women) The most amazing thing is that the primary goal of President Bush’s trip to China is to convince the Chinese to open up their market for US exporters. This speech should start off matters nicely! I wonder who in the State Department approved this speech. (I see that ‘Condi’ is in the Middle East giving similar meaningless speeches -- urging everyone to strive for peace!).

* I hope nobody questions President Bush about the Year 2000 election in USA, where the candidate with over half a million votes of majority did not win the office!