Word: condolleeza
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Despite the smiles and words of praise, Secretary of State Condolleeza Rice left no doubt during her brief visit to China last weekend that the Sino-U.S. relationship will be an increasingly important - and perilous - dimension of Washington's foreign policy in years to come. The visit highlighted new tensions over Taiwan, mounting U.S. concern over China's efforts to modernize its military and impatience over its diplomatic efforts to restrain North Korea's nuclear program - and, of course, the Bush administration's promotion of democracy. ?China must embrace some form of open representative government...
...priority is to avoid being held responsible if the process breaks down, as the track record suggests it very well may. The best hope for success, in fact, may be the very exhaustion that has set in among both peoples after four years of bloodletting. Still, Secretary of State Condolleeza Rice?s absence from Tuesday?s talks signaled Washington?s own caution. Having been burned at Aqaba, this time the administration is going to cheer the parties on hold back on intervening directly to force the pace...
...President Bush's replacement of Colin Powell with Condolleeza Rice as Secretary of State drew an almost audible groan from within the corridors of power in Europe, where it was read as the final victory of the administration's hawks over its voices of moderation. Dr. Rice, of course, is intimately associated with precisely those policy choices on Iraq and Israel-Palestine that most alarmed many U.S. allies during the administration's first term. At the same time, however, those allies may take some comfort in the fact that this time around, they'll be dealing with a Secretary...
...brokers - currently National Security Adviser Condolleeza Rice - now find themselves forced to adjudicate between Israeli demands for an immediate PA offensive to disarm and dismantle the terror infrastructure of the hudna signatories and the PA's insistence that as long as the hudna holds it should be given time to tame the radicals. The PA has also won U.S. sympathy for its demand that Israel halt construction of its West Bank "security fence" designed to separate Israelis and Palestinians. The reason is that the fence is, to all intents and purposes, a border, and rather than following the internationally recognized...
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