China adjusts policy.

(From The Korea Herald)

By Wu Yixue China Daily / Asia News Network Profound changes in international relations since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks in the United States, especially since the U.S.-led war against Iraq which had neither a convincing excuse nor any United Nations (U.N.) authorization, have brought far-reaching changes and fresh influences to China's security environment.

"The Sept. 11 event has had an epoch-making significance upon international politics and the international strategic structure," said Lu Zhongwei, director of the Institute of Contemporary International Relations, at last weekend's Forum on International Politics and China's Strategy sponsored by the School of International Relations at Renmin University of China. Under the banner of the war on terrorism, the United States has launched an aggressive anti-terror campaign across the world following the attacks.

The most important influence of the 2001 attacks is that they have changed the United States' security strategy and its methods of dealing with danger. The U.S. "preemptive attacks" theory, which Washington said was aimed at preventing potential threats to U.S. national security, has provided it with a pretext to launch military strikes against any country it does not like, putting the established U.N. mechanisms on the brink of collapse.

Washington's success in Afghanistan and Iraq, where the Saddam Hussein regime was accused by the United States of having connections with terrorists and developing weapons of mass destruction, will inevitably encourage the superpower's tendency to intervene in other countries, leading to the deterioration of the overall international situation and the security environment facing China.

"The current world is not one in which all countries sit as equals, but one in which the United States stands head and shoulders above others; however, but the struggle between major countries for their own influence and ...