Nor was her reaction reported to another declaration by Rudd, that he had invited another nuclear-armed power, Russia, to join his proposed Asia-Pacific Community, in order to forestall any thoughts of a “Chinese Monroe Doctrine.
The squandered opportunity for democratic consolidation and free market economic growth in the Western hemisphere will be among the most malevolent aspects of the Clinton legacy -- a legacy made all the more reprehensible for Mr. Clinton neither meaning nor saying that he stands by the MonroeDoctrine when it comes to Chinese penetration of our neighborhood.