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This time, by golly, no one would call George Bush timid. Quite the contrary, the President made a rare appearance as Bush the riverboat gambler. By sending a high-level delegation to Beijing to confer with Chinese authorities who only six months earlier had ordered the massacre of pro-democracy demonstrators near Tiananmen Square, Bush knew he would stir up a hurricane of outraged protest. And for what? The slender chance that China would respond with concessions that could begin to melt the ice in U.S. relations with the world's most populous nation...
...criticism may well be the angriest the Bush White House has heard. Senate Majority Leader George Mitchell, using an image taken up by many other critics, accused Bush of "embarrassing kowtowing." Others assailed the surreptitious nature of the mission -- it was announced in Washington at 2 a.m. Saturday, Dec. 9, after Scowcroft and Eagleburger had already landed in Beijing -- and the obsequious nature of Scowcroft's toast at a banquet. Scowcroft addressed the Chinese rulers as "friends," referred oh-so- delicately to "the events at Tiananmen" and described U.S. critics of the massacre as "irritants" to Chinese-American relations...
...blaming the U.S. Congress for the frostiness in Sino-American relations. Says a U.S. official: "Scowcroft made very clear to the Chinese that our Congress is the main problem in the U.S.-China relationship, and that if the relationship is as important to them as it is to President Bush, they need to give a positive response, or a series of them, by the time Congress returns in late January...
...Bush, some action on Europe and NATO...
Bonnettstown: A House in Ireland by Andrew Bush (Abrams; $37.50). Built near Kilkenny in 1737, this limestone manor house is revealed in 45 magnificent color photographs. The rooms display the cluttered charm that only two centuries of daily use can bring. Bush revels in textures: flaking plaster, rubbed wood, well-worn carpets. This book celebrates old but ageless beauty...