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NEW YORK (AFP) - President George W. Bush (news - web sites)'s Republican party warned the United States would not tolerate aggression from North Korea (news - web sites) or any Chinese military moves against Taiwan.
On day one of their national convention, the party adopted a tough-talking platform that hailed Bush's war on terrorism and vowed no let-up in his efforts to realign global priorities and push for democracy around the world.
In the section on Asia, the Republicans took special aim at China, expressing "profound disagreements" on human rights, over Taiwan and on Beijing's "outdated path" of seeking to develop advanced weaponry.
"We deny the right of Beijing to impose its rule on the free Taiwanese people. All issues regarding Taiwan's future must be resolved peacefully and must be agreeable to the people of Taiwan," the party said.
"If China violates these principles and attacks Taiwan, then the United States will respond appropriately," it warned. "America will help Taiwan defend itself."
They also gave a no-nonsense warning to North Korea, part of Bush's "axis of evil" and accused by Washington of operating a nuclear weapons programme in violation of a 1994 agreement.
"North Korea lies outside of the international system. Americans have shed their blood to stop North Korean aggression before and remain prepared to resist aggression today," the party said.
More generally, the 93-page platform statement said US relations with Asia since Bush took office have "never been better," based on alliances with Australia, Japan, South Korea (news - web sites), Thailand and the Philippines.
It said those alliances were "bolstered" by "strong relationships with American friends such as Singapore, India, Indonesia, Taiwan and New Zealand."
Turning to another ally in the war on terror, the centrepiece of Bush's re-election campaign, the party applauded him for "dramatically refashioning" the US relationship with Pakistan.
"Three years ago, Pakistan was one of the few countries in the world that recognised the Taliban regime," the hardline Muslim rulers in Afghanistan (news - web sites) ousted by a US-led war in late 2001.
Now, the party said, "Pakistani forces are rounding up terrorists along their nation's western border. Today, because we are working with Pakistani leaders, Pakistan is an ally in the war on terror, and the American people are safer."
Calling the Taliban "one of the most backward and brutal regimes of modern history," they said Afghanistan was now "a world away from the nightmare" of their rule.
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Come on, who do you think would win?
China and DPRK would fucking bury the USA. I think it would be a good war.
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