Neocons tried to spark conflict with China?

[kirovman]

Not sure on the reliability of this source, but I was referred to it by a source I consider reliable.

http://public.cq.com/docs/hs/hsnews110-000002523531.html

The same top Bush administration neoconservatives who leap-frogged Washington?s foreign policy establishment to topple Saddam Hussein nearly pulled off a similar coup in U.S.-China relations?creating the potential of a nuclear war over Taiwan, a top aide to former Secretary of State Colin Powell says.

With the election of George W. Bush in 2000, some of Taiwan?s most fervent allies were swept back into power in Washington, particularly at the Pentagon, starting with Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld.

They included such key architects of the Iraq War as Paul Wolfowitz, the deputy defense secretary, Douglas Feith, the undersecretary for policy, and Steven Cambone, Rumsfeld?s new intelligence chief, Wilkerson said. President Bush?s controversial envoy to the United Nations, John Bolton, was another.

While Bush publicly continued the one-China policy of his five White House predecessors, Wilkerson said, the Pentagon ?neocons? took a different tack, quietly encouraging Taiwan?s pro-independence president, Chen Shui-bian.

?This went on,? he said of the pro-independence efforts, ?until George Bush weighed in and told Rumsfeld to cease and desist [and] told him multiple times to re-establish military-to-military relations with China.?

The article seems to suggest that Bush was the relatively 'good guy' in all of this. Thoughts?

 

[clarky003]

It's pretty clear Bush is just a public relations patsy to all these massive interests that are driving the neo conservative agenda. The policy is dangerous too, but problem is they are very powerful people backed mostley by US banking families such as the Rockerfellers. There has also been a substantial amount of media stories/rumours on how they are trying to do the same to the Iranian regime.