But the reality, as Clinton knows, is that at least for the next decade China needs peace and stability to develop a sustainable economy for what soon could be a billion and a half people. America is a key factor in those plans. In that same Thursday press conference Clinton dangled some incentives before Zhu to help out on Kosovo. On Thursday he reiterated that stance but said that it could take the rest of the year before final details were worked out. China has much more clout with both Russia and Yugoslavia than appears on the surface.
China is big and stable with a booming economy and growing intercontinental military capabilities.
It completely supports them on the inviolability of national sovereignty. On the other hand America's position increasingly is that we now live in a world without borders. Work with us, he says, to settle the Kosovo crisis and you'll be in by the time it meets next November. But if you won't or can't then I can blame your failure to get in on the Republicans.