This visit to Beijing was planned so that to date for the 30th anniversary of the meeting between President Richard Nixon and Mao Tse-Tung in China. The, Nixon had an intention to shuffle the “Chinese cards” on purpose of confronting the Soviet threat. Now, Bush probably wants to do the same in his fight against international terrorism. However, it is still the same old song like it was many years ago, because Washington realizes that powerful Communist China as an ally may be not less dangerous than an enemy.
But the most boisterous event unfolded in South Korea. In Seoul, two thousand protesters subjected the US flag and President Bush’s portrait to fire. In the course of negotiations President of South Korea Kim Dae-Jong strenuously laid stress on the fact that the relations between the both Koreas had taken a turn for the better, and Seoul is reluctant to drive the situation to the “boiling-point”. The US President accepted this point of view and on principle supported the South Korean’s policy pursued in relation to its Northern neighbor, which is called “a sunshine policy”.
Well, sunshine is a good thing of course, at least it sounds beautifully. If it meant a free will of the both countries, such policy should be definitely praised and hailed. But the happening unfortunately has another underlying motive. The South Koreans who have achieved democracy and prosperity for their country are willing to find peace and hope to coax North Korean dictator Kim Jong Il. In truth, to pay such peace off. In the Middle Ages rich cities used this tactics to pay off attacks of barbarian nomads. And it worked, because nomads had no ideology. Unfortunately, the North Korean leader is armed with ideology, which is incredibly simple in reality – any far-outer is the enemy. First, any methods will do if the matter concerns the enemy. Second, South Korea yields. Third, this occasion must be taken. Having blunted the enemy’s vigilance, it is much easier to send out terrorists, to burrow tunnels through to make a sudden appearance “from the underground” and keep on working out the mass destruction arms.
Counting on the good will of “men-eaters” has never been good at last. Those who know what it is like have learned the lesson well. Veterans of the Korean War welcomed the US President on the Chinese border sporting banners with “Bush is a defender of freedom!”.