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Fareed Zakaria has a good peice contradting Hu Jintao and GW.
“What is most dismaying about this state of affairs is that for the past 50 years the United States has skillfully merged its own agenda with the agendas of others, creating a sense of shared interests and values. When Presidents Truman, Eisenhower and Kennedy waged the Cold War, they also presented the world with a constructive agenda dealing with trade, poverty and health. They fought communism with one hand and offered hope with the other. We have fallen far from that model if the head of the Chinese Communist Party is seen as presenting the world with a more progressive agenda than the president of the world’s leading democracy.”
I would go further and say that on many issues the Chinese are much more progressive than the short sighted american politicians. For example, the Chinese just added a fuel economy measure to theire cars that is much stricter than the american one; it actually applies to minivans and SUVs. The Chinese actually seem conserned about the growing disparity between the rich and the poor, while americans celebrate.
It really is a sorry time for american democracy.
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