Editing Colin Powell (section)

===Other foreign policy issues===
Additionally, Powell was critical of other aspects of [[U.S. foreign policy]] in the past, such as its support for the [[1973 Chilean coup d'état]] that deposed the democratically elected president [[Salvador Allende]] in favor of [[Augusto Pinochet]]. From two separate interviews in 2003, Powell stated in one about the 1973 event: "I can't justify or explain the actions and decisions that were made at that time. It was a different time. There was a great deal of concern about communism in this part of the world. Communism was a threat to the democracies in this part of the world. It was a threat to the United States".<ref>{{cite web |url=https://fas.org/irp/news/2003/02/dos022003.html |title=Remarks at the 2003 Groundhog Job Shadow Day Program, Secretary Colin L. Powell, Remarks and question and answer session with students, Washington, DC, January&nbsp;31, 2003, excerpt on 1973 Chile coup, Federation of American Scientists |publisher=Fas.org |access-date=August 29, 2010 |archive-date=November 20, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111120093326/http://www.fas.org/irp/news/2003/02/dos022003.html |url-status=live }}</ref> In another interview, he also simply stated: "With respect to your earlier comment about Chile in the 1970s and what happened with Mr. Allende, it is not a part of American history that we're proud of."<ref>{{cite web |url=https://fas.org/irp/news/2003/02/dos022003.html |title=Secretary of State Colin L. Powell, Interview On Black Entertainment Television's Youth Town Hall, February&nbsp;20, 2003, excerpt on 1973 U.S. covert action in Chile, Federation of American Scientists |publisher=Fas.org |access-date=August 29, 2010 |archive-date=November 20, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111120093326/http://www.fas.org/irp/news/2003/02/dos022003.html |url-status=live }}</ref>

[[File:US Navy 050105-N-6020P-115 Secretary of State Colin Powell speaks to members of the international press about the United State's involvement in disaster relief at a press conference held at the Banda Aceh, Sumatra, Indonesia airport.jpg|250px|thumb|left|Powell in [[Banda Aceh]] speaking on United States's involvement in recovery efforts following the [[2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami]] with [[Alwi Shihab]] wearing green.]]
In the [[Hainan Island incident]] of 1 April 2001, a United States US [[Lockheed EP-3|EP-3]] surveillance aircraft collided mid-air with a Chinese [[Shenyang J-8]] jet fighter over the South China Sea.<ref name="Zhao-2023">{{Cite book |last=Zhao |first=Suisheng |url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/9781503634152 |title=The Dragon Roars Back: Transformational Leaders and Dynamics of Chinese Foreign Policy |date=2023 |publisher=[[Stanford University Press]] |isbn=978-1-5036-3415-2 |location=Stanford, California |pages=64|doi=10.1515/9781503634152 }}</ref> While somewhat ambiguous, Powell's expression of "very sorry" was accepted as sufficient for the formal apology that China had sought.<ref name="Zhao-2023" /> The incident was nonetheless a serious flare-up in [[China–United States relations|United States-China relations]] and created negative feelings towards the United States by the Chinese public and increased public feelings of [[Chinese nationalism]].<ref name="Zhao-2023" />

In September 2004, Powell described the [[Darfur genocide]] as "genocide", thus becoming the first cabinet member to apply the term "genocide" to events in an ongoing conflict.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Hamilton|first=Rebecca|date=August 17, 2011|title=Inside Colin Powell's Decision to Declare Genocide in Darfur|url=https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2011/08/inside-colin-powells-decision-to-declare-genocide-in-darfur/243560/|access-date=January 25, 2021|website=The Atlantic|language=en-US|archive-date=January 22, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210122204931/https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2011/08/inside-colin-powells-decision-to-declare-genocide-in-darfur/243560/|url-status=live}}</ref>

{{Wikinews|Colin Powell Resigns as U.S. Secretary of State, Rice Likely Successor}}
In November the president "forced Powell to resign", according to [[Walter LaFeber]].{{sfn|LaFeber|2009|p=71}} Powell announced his resignation as Secretary of State on 15 November 2004, shortly after Bush was reelected. Bush's desire for Powell to resign was communicated to Powell via a phone call by Bush's chief of staff, [[Andrew Card]].<ref name=DeYoung2006/> The following day, Bush nominated National Security Advisor [[Condoleezza Rice]] as Powell's successor.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=254647|publisher=[[ABC News (United States)|ABC News]]|title=Bush Nominates Rice to Be Secretary of State|date=January 7, 2006|access-date=November 24, 2021|archive-date=November 16, 2004|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20041116094509/https://abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=254647}}</ref>

In mid-November, Powell stated that he had seen new evidence suggesting that Iran was adapting missiles for a nuclear delivery system. The accusation came at the same time as the settlement of an agreement between Iran, the [[International Atomic Energy Agency|IAEA]], and the European Union.<ref name=NYT_Sciolino_20041118>{{Cite news  |last = Sciolino  |first = Elaine  |title = Exiles Add to Claims on Iran Nuclear Arms  |work = [[The New York Times]]  |date = November 18, 2004 |url = http://www.nci.org/04nci/11/pbs/ExilesAdd.htm  |access-date = February 8, 2007 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20070102013832/http://www.nci.org/04nci/11/pbs/ExilesAdd.htm  |archive-date = January 2, 2007 |url-status = dead  |df = mdy-all  }}</ref>

Although biographer Jeffrey J. Matthews is highly critical of how Powell misled the United Nations Security Council regarding weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, he credits Powell with a series of achievements at the State Department. These include restoration of morale to psychologically demoralized professional diplomats, leadership of the international [[HIV/AIDS]] initiative, resolving a crisis with China, and blocking efforts to tie Saddam Hussein to the [[9/11 attacks]] on the United States.{{sfn|Matthews|2019|pp=321, 379–85}}