How could China help President Bush and his war against terrorism?
The Chinese are particularly adept at operating at two levels. My guess is that their cooperation with the United States will be significant, but much of that cooperation they will not wish to make public. There’s a good precedent for this in the early 1980s. The United States and China cooperated in their support of the Muslim forces fighting the Soviet Union that invaded Afghanistan. And the Taliban that rules at least the bulk of Afghanistan was one of the supporters, forces we were supporting together, China and the United States. That cooperation took the form of the U.S. buying Chinese weapons, providing mules to haul them through Pakistan into Afghanistan. It was quite intimate cooperation in the pursuit of guerrilla war to sap the strength of the Soviet Union. … We also cooperated with missile monitoring systems in western China when we were concerned about Soviet testing of missiles. We had cooperative relations with Chinese intelligence in that area. The world, for the most
