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...Chinese have reason to be suspicious. President Bush's election rhetoric, combined with the administration's characterizing of China as a "strategic competitor" in contrast to the previous administration's terming it a "strategic partner," has given them cause for concern, and of course the Chinese see national missile defense as aimed at them. So all of this is prompting the Chinese to ask whether the U.S. really wants friendship, or whether they're being set up as a new Evil Empire...
...Bill Clinton's smooth acceptance of every Chinese outrage - the spy scandals, the weapons sales, the bullying of Taiwan - so long as nothing got in the way of our growing trade. Bush clearly sided with those who favored a tougher line when he took to calling China a "strategic competitor," not a partner. That shift pleased a whole range of constituencies: evangelical Christians worried about religious persecution, union protectionists, unthawed cold warriors, human rights activists. But the business lobby had other agendas, and they were all going to be watching closely...
...considered Bill Clinton's tolerance of every Chinese outrage?the spy scandals, the weapons sales, the human rights abuses?so long as nothing got in the way of our growing trade. Bush clearly sided with those who favored a tougher line when he took to calling China a "strategic competitor," not a partner. That shift pleased a whole range of constituencies, evangelical Christians worried about religious persecution, union protectionists, unthawed cold warriors, human rights activists. But the business lobby had other agendas, and they were all going to be watching closely...
...Thursday, when Bush stood before a bundle of newspaper editors, he was broadening his vocabulary. While affirming that China was a "competitor," he added, "But that doesn't mean we can't find areas in which we can partner. The economy's a place where we can partner." Progress picked up Friday as the diplomats began hammering out language for an exchange of drafts of a letter that might pave the way for the crew's release. When Bush met with Rice and Cheney to dissect the regret/apology language for the letter to be signed by Ambassador Joseph Prueher...
...glorified lifestyle and place him in the larger, more diffuse ?real world,' he's going to feel lost, anonymous and often severely depressed," says Gérard Cagni, director of the sedap drug clinic-one of two in France with in-patient programs tailored for athletes. When such a competitor also has a history of doping and drug use, the risk of addiction-and an unwillingness to recognize it as a severe problem-can complicate matters. "The continued use of drugs can, in the athlete's mind, constitute a link to the sporting past," says Cagni, himself a former French...