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This Friday, August 8, 2008, father and son are in Beijing again, for an occasion that neither will need a diary entry to remember. The former President introduced his son at a dedication ceremony for a sprawling new U.S. embassy complex, just 12 hours before Beijing opened the 2008 Summer...
Bush 43 is on the last stop of what is his last ever tour of east Asia as President. And while, at the embassy on Friday morning, he gracefully acknowledged history's extraordinary progress - the Beijing of 2008 bears no resemblance to the dusty, impoverished capital he visited 33 years...
Those lines, deep into a lengthy speech, were too much for the traveling press to pass up. Bush hadn't exactly stepped off Air Force One wearing a gas mask, as the U.S. Olympics cyclists did earlier this week, but he had, according to the press narrative, slammed Beijing on...
But the speech, pre arranged and carefully scripted, was nothing the Chinese didn't expect. A beaming foreign minister, Yang Jieche - Beijing's former Ambassador to Washington - greeted Bush warmly when he arrived in Beijing Thursday night. Publicly, Bush kept to the script as to why he had come to...
After those failures, Bush's message to both Hu and Putin this weekend will be that having Iran is refusing to play ball despite American efforts. And there are signs that Beijing is beginning to share Bush's frustration. "Iran," a senior Chinese official acknowledged to a western visitor before...