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...Balancing Washington For putin's policymakers, the U.S. remains the instinctive adversary, the country whose preponderance the Kremlin yearns to balance. Russia, of course, is not alone in seeking that goal; French President Jacques Chirac regularly advocates a "multipolar" world (and compared to many other G-8 leaders, has been markedly uncritical of Putin's record). But the intriguing thing about Putin's policy has been the way in which he has aligned Russian interests with those of another natural rival to the U.S., China. Putin and China's President Hu Jintao meet frequently - five times in the last year...
Bush occasionally got crabby on European trips early in his presidency; in 2002, after enduring days of anti-American demonstrations, he famously called NBC's David Gregory a preening "intercontinental" when Gregory asked French President Jacques Chirac a question in French. But Bush's advisers believe he has discovered a formula for dealing with the Continent that is working for him. The White House concentrates his visits and speeches on friendly countries and largely ignores the recalcitrant ones. "We're building relationships where there are relationships to build," said a White House official. That explains why the President spends...
...confidence," the Prime Minister summoned his most arrogant tone, saying: "I denounce the easiness, and I say it to your face, the cowardice in your attitude." The next day he took it back, but the sense of a government on edge remained. While few insiders think President Jacques Chirac will drop Villepin, he might counsel him to study a little more about how Napoleon succeeded, at least for a while, by inspiring his troops...
...French state projects. As well it should, for its delicate purpose is to pull together France's collection of 300,000 artistic and cultural artifacts from Asia, the Americas, Africa and Oceania without a whiff of ex-imperial condescension. It will be the most visible Parisian legacy of Jacques Chirac, who is winding up 12 years as President and was Paris' mayor for 18 years before that; its inauguration offers him a rare respite from the political failures that have plagued his final years in office. Chirac himself decided in 1999 to award the museum project to Nouvel, a Socialist...
...mind. In citing Gaddafi as a model, Rice has signaled the Administration's priority for security over the cause of freedom that both Gaddafi and Bush love to talk about. Even though Gaddafi has done little to loosen his dictatorship, British Prime Minister Tony Blair and French President Jacques Chirac, among other statesmen, have already visited Libya to signal the West's pleasure. President Bush, or his successor, could be next to visit the leader in his tent...