| VOA: "Mr. Fossedal, the policy you are talking about, of focusing on popular elements in China rather than just the government, and of promoting freedom and democracy insofar as the U.S. can, while viewing the government there with less concern as not fully representative of the people -- some have called such a policy a "Cold War mentality" or a return to "Reaganism." What do you have to say?"
Gregory Fossedal, Chairman, AdTI: "My short reply would be, 'thank you.' The Cold War was a great policy, and a victory for humanity. "The longer reply is, look, there are important differences between the two situations. But, fundamentally, the Cold War was highly effective. As a result of the Cold War, and especially the forces of reform Ronald Reagan set off late in the Cold War, the world is now much better off - and everyone in the Soviet Union is better off, than they were under Soviet rule. The Reagan years of the Cold War will stand, if history is accurately written, as the greatest peaceful dismantling of a totalitarian empire in this century, and possibly the millennium." "If someone wants to compare my policy towards China in any way with that great policy, even though there are some differences, I do not resist that. Let us do for the Chinese people in the next decade what we did for the people of Western Europe in the 1940s and 1950s, and for the people of Russia, Poland, South Africa, and others in the 1980s." Home | Publications | Search | Opportunity Africa | Democracy China | Cuba | Defense | Education Reform | Environment | Immigration | Intellectual Property | International Monetary Fund | Democracy Switzerland | Taxes and Regulation | Technology | Telecom |