From the Portside:
When newly appointed CIA Director Porter Goss recently
warned that China’s modernization of its military posed
a direct threat to the U.S., was it standard budget
time scare tactics? Or did it signal the growing
influence of hard-liners in the Bush Administration who
want to “contain” China and re-institute the Cold War
in Asia?A day later, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld
delivered a similar message to the Senate Armed
Services Committee. Rumsfeld claimed that within a
decade the Chinese navy could surpass the U.S. Navy,
and that China was “increasingly moving their navy
further from shore.”The 2005 Quadrennial Defense Review will reportedly
take a similar alarmist view of China’s military.
