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05/01/2008: "CIA director: China is not an 'inevitable enemy'"
The director of the CIA told an audience at Kansas State University on Wednesday that China is "not the inevitable enemy" of the United States.
Hayden said the world's population is expected to grow by 45 percent to 9 billion people by midcentury, mostly in countries that cannot sustain such growth, such as Asia, Africa and the Middle East. Combine that with the likely mass migration to developed countries, and resources will be strained, leading to an increased risk of violence, civil unrest or
extremism, he said.
China will become an economic and political competitor to the United States, he said, but should not be treated as "an inevitable enemy."
Although the rapid growth of the Chinese military could pose a threat to the United States and Taiwan, Hayden said, he believes that the nation's aim of military modernization is about "projecting strength" and demonstrating that it has "great-power status."
[ When America announces it has no plans to attack a nation, then that means war is just around the corner. The Bush administration will not tolerate a rival superpower. ]
http://edition.cnn.com/2008/US/04/30/cia.director.challenges/index.html?eref=rss_world