Subscribe to our newsletter. Current Results C ondoleezza Rice was the chief foreign policy adviser to President George W. Bush, and is now the President National Security Adviser. She also talks about the possibility of her becoming Secretary of State. This is the second of a two-part series based on our interview with Ms. Rice. Cuba and China are different circumstances.
China is a big power that is in internal transition.
There is no doubt that the Chinese economy is opening up, that it's marketizing, that it may not be doing so as rapidly as we would like, but that there is a substantial and growing private sector, entrepreneurial sector that needs contact with the outside world and could of itself if it becomes strong enough be quite transforming to Chinese politics. So when there is a budding and blossoming private entrepreneurial sector, and free elections in Cuba, and it's clear that Castro isn't just going to be the beneficiary of every dollar that goes into Cuba, then I think you can do something with Cuba. But I also think, my own view, is that with Cuba it's very hard to imagine anything getting into Cuba that doesn't go through Fidel Castro. The pervasiveness of Castro in this society is unmatched, even by the Soviet Union. I think Castro is just in a different category.