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...statements by President Bush. Instead, Secretary of State Colin Powell was on point, issuing a statement of regret that, while well short of the apology the Chinese had demanded, shifted the tone away from the language of confrontation; he then hand-delivered a letter to Beijing's most senior diplomat setting out Washington's ideas for a diplomatic resolution. Most important, perhaps, the contents of that letter were not shared with the media. President Bush on Thursday echoed Powell?s statement of regret, although he also said China must act quickly to return the U.S. personnel...
...Bush's Tuesday remarks left some old China hands dismayed. "You don't want to talk about harming the relationship until you know what sort of harm you may be inflicting," said J. Stapleton Roy, who was ambassador to Beijing under Bush's father and a top U.S. diplomat under Clinton. "I think it does reflect a certain amount of inexperience when you make statements like that." Roy blamed Bush's tone on Administration officials "who are unrealistic in their expectations of how China should behave in these circumstances...
...communications cable to Iraq. In January, China adopted a less threatening policy toward Taiwan; Bush still might sell Aegis air-defense radar to the island. If he does, "relations with the U.S. could worsen permanently, and Jiang will lose the greatest pillar of his legitimacy," says an Asian diplomat in Beijing. Last month China dispatched foreign policy mandarin Qian Qichen to Washington to patch up relations; Bush chose to receive Japan's doomed Prime Minister first, underscoring Tokyo's privileged position. "I'm frustrated," says a Chinese foreign policy adviser criticized by leaders for being too pro-U.S. "China...
...transport. And despite several perfunctory communiques through Albanian expatriates like Veliu that their aim is "equal rights" for the ethnic-Albanian minority in Macedonia, it is still unclear exactly what they are fighting for. "Nothing is going on here that warrants taking to the hills," says a senior Western diplomat...
...human rights three and a half years ago, arose "only because I've had a very high profile as a woman," she says. Never one to mince words, Robinson is frank about just how ill-suited she would be for the top job. "I'm not a skilled diplomat in the kind of compromises a secretary-general must be prepared to make," she says. Her refusal to compromise her principles and a growing frustration at what she calls "financial and human resource restraints" at the U.N. are the main reasons behind her decision, announced last week, not to seek...