Rummy and the Reds

Rummy is visiting the Chinese mainland and all the majors have it covered. All of them mention Rummy's cocern over the culture of secrecy that envelopes the Chinese military. They also quote Rumsfeld's push to open up Chinese society politically. NYT basically calls Rummy a hypocrite for talking out of both sides of his mouth once it comes to China. They wonder how he could criticize China while investing there in his pre-Sec. of Defense days. We have to turn to the WaPost to discover that Rummy said the US welcomed China's emergence as an economic power but felt that it needed to do more. Specifically criticizing military expansion. Sounds to me not that he was being pragmatic not hypocritical. Despite Rummy's call for more openness the Reds have a long way to go, LAT was quick to point out that the press was only allowed to sit in for the first question from the audience. The WashTimes that the trip to China is part of a larger tour that will take Rummy to Mongolia, Kazakhstan, Lithuania and S. Korea.