Wolfowitz says World Bank will work with China

ckramer

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Mon Apr-04-05 02:20 PM
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Wolfowitz says World Bank will work with China

Newly appointed World Bank President Paul Wolfowitz welcomed China's stunning economic development on Friday and said the world should engage with the Chinese even if they disagreed with their politics.

In his first radio interview since he was confirmed in the job, Wolfowitz told the BBC that "the goal of poverty reduction is as valid in China as it is elsewhere".

Asked if the World Bank would attach strings to its dealings with China to encourage it to embrace democracy, Wolfowitz said: "I don't believe it should."

"The economic development of China is a positive development ... and something that the United States and the world should welcome and work with," he added.

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Clark2008

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Mon Apr-04-05 02:21 PM
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1. Translation: If we don't work with China, they'll stop floating the

dollar and bankrupt all the fat cats in the stockmarket, which includes me and all the other neo-cons.

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bearfan454

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Mon Apr-04-05 02:26 PM
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2. Exactamundo n/t

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Toots

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Mon Apr-04-05 02:55 PM
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4. which includes me and all the other neo-cons.

hmmnn. You is what you is I guess..

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Brooklyn Michael

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Mon Apr-04-05 02:53 PM
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3. Heh....like they have a choice

Edited on Mon Apr-04-05 02:55 PM by Brooklyn Michael

............and to quote our friend Homer Simpson, "You guys are Commies? Then what's with all the signs of a rudimentary free market I'm seeing?"

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ckramer

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Mon Apr-04-05 04:08 PM
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5. I just don't understand when he said this:

"I don't believe it should."

Is this the same Wolfowitz who's hell-bent on invading Iraq ? Or he's now regreting in what he has done to the 100,000 dead Iraqis?

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