Who Can Bush And Company Piss Off Today?

I'm no diplomat and Rice may not be either, but it seems to me this is the sort of thing you discuss quietly with other countries and not something you blab to the press?

US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has warned that China could become a "negative force" in the Asia-Pacific region and urged the US, Australia and Japan to form a common position on how to engage the Asian economic powerhouse, reports said.

Speaking to Australian journalists in Washington ahead of her visit to Sydney and Melbourne next week, Rice said that Beijing's military and economic rise would be the focus of upcoming trilateral security discussions with Australia and Japan. [emphasis mine]

And can't this administration talk about any country without sounding like it deems them an enemy? It is only prudent to consider how to deal with increasing power of any country, but it isn't necessary to use the words "negative force".

Anyone wanna guess what the next headline in Beijing Daily, People's Daily, Shanghai Star and Xinhua News newspapers will be?

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