Bush Sees "change" Coming To China

US President George W Bush said Thursday that he was "optimistic" about China's future, predicting that political change was inevitable in the wake of its economic takeoff.

"Young people who grow up with the freedom to trade goods will ultimately demand the freedom to trade ideas, especially on an unrestricted internet," Bush said in Bangkok in his last major policy speech on US-Asian relations.

"Change in China will arrive on its own terms and in keeping with its own history and traditions.

Yet change will arrive.

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