CIA Chief: China not acting as 'responsible' Major Power

CIA Chief: China not acting as 'responsible' Major Power

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Chinese communist leaders "have not yet stepped up to the responsibility of a major power" and so far have failed to understand "they actually have some responsibility for the maintenance of the global system," the Washington Times quoted Hayden as saying in an interview.

"When you go and essentially corrupt an island nation in the South Pacific with massive infusions of aid no matter how appropriately or inappropriately it will be used, and you strangle nascent democracies in their crib by doing so just so you can get that island nation's vote in the General Assembly, that's pursuing it for a very narrow base," Hayden said.

"If you want to be a great power, you've got be thinking more broadly, you cannot be acting just on those kind of narrow considerations," he said.

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[edit on 13-3-2008 by DimensionalDetective]

Is it just me, or does anyone else here smell the rotting stench of IRONY in these statements. China getting involved and skewing other nations electoral processes and governmental processes? Do these people think the entire world is completely unaware of what THEY'VE been up to?

The States have become the ultimate Pot / Kettle embarrassment. Do as we say, not as we do. Nobody's listening to these double standards anymore.

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No, it's pot calling pot black. China's government is just as corrupt as ours, if not more so, and that's saying a lot.