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...official during Bush's first term, Bolton tried to have them fired or reassigned when they disagreed with him; the foreign-aid worker who says Bolton, then a private attorney, chased her down a Moscow hotel hallway in 1994 in an effort to intimidate her; and the former U.S. ambassador to South Korea who complained that Bolton had misled the Senate Foreign Relations Committee by suggesting that the ambassador had approved an incendiary speech Bolton made about North Korea...
Bolton faces less partisan accusers as well. Nearly 60 retired diplomats, many of whom served under Republican Presidents, signed a letter to the committee opposing Bolton's confirmation. Frederick Vreeland, a former ambassador to Morocco who worked under Bolton when both were senior State Department officials in the Administration of Bush's father, sent an e-mail obtained by TIME to top committee Democrat Joseph Biden, saying Bolton "dealt with visitors to his office as if they were servants with whom he could be dismissive, curt and negative...
...iron ore negotiations, Chinese buyers settled for a 71.5% price increase (BHP Billiton, fresh from securing a 25-year supply contract, had sought to double its price via a rise in the freight rate it charges mills). Chinese officials say supply bottlenecks are to blame for the price hikes. Ambassador Fu has raised the issue with Australian officials. "There is strong investment in the minerals field, but not enough to meet demand," she says. "The price is rising faster than the (Chinese) side can cope with." But Australia's government won't be intervening. "China aspires to be recognized...
...important to them than before, while Canberra's friendship with Washington gives it "gravitas" in the region. "As China's economic power has grown," Downer says, "it has looked around to see who matters around here, and Australia has been one of the countries it has particularly focused on." Ambassador Fu not only agrees with Downer that the relationship between their two countries is better than ever, she uses the same phrases to explain why. "We do not see each other as a threat," she says. "There are no strategic obstacles in our relations. We are able to understand each...
...people get the money to buy flash cars, clothes and Shanghai apartments? That's complicated. Wealth can be due to luck, corruption or cleverness. China's "peaceful rise" is a brand that's been pitched in the same manner as a multinational mining company would push its green credentials. "Ambassador Fu is out and about and very focused on China's image," says an Australian bureaucrat. "But their methods have been heavy-handed on Falun Gong - they've given them far too much attention." On Taiwan, says another official, the Chinese have been emphatic in public and assiduous in working...