Brain Fertilizer

As much as I like the Chinese people, I hope he's right and this will be yet another reason why Sec State Rice will be more effective and better for US interests than Colin Powell in that cabinet position.

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If her writings of four years ago are any guide, Ms. Rice does not share Mr. Powell's sentimentalism about the rise of China. That offers cause for optimism that America's new secretary of state will work quietly, but determinedly to counter Beijing's rising influence, and arrest the slide in America's prestige and influence in Asia.