Word: hainan
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...support for his war on terrorism. This is no gimme. China is still smarting from damaging incidents involving the U.S. that have fallen with the regularity of hammer blows?the 1999 bombing of the Chinese embassy in Belgrade, American accusations of filched nuclear secrets in 2000 and the Hainan Island spy-plane episode last year. Until Sept. 11, China felt the U.S. was preventing it from attaining its rightful place among the world's leading nations despite its surging economy and influence. It even tried to create its own regional security bloc last year by expanding an agreement with Russia...
...Jiang has staked his legacy on China's relationship with the U.S. That hasn't always been easy; tensions over the Hainan spy-plane incident, allegations that China had stolen U.S. nuclear secrets and the 1999 bombing of the Chinese embassy in Belgrade all gave Beijing hard-liners plenty of ammunition. But Jiang has been able to smooth over the tensions and keep the lines of communication with the U.S. open...
...hold their breath in anticipation. And he dazzles them with his effortless command. The moment he set foot in the State Department last January, he was met with rapturous applause. When he paid a call in Beijing three months after a U.S. spy plane was forced to land on Hainan island, he coaxed a joke out of somber President Jiang Zemin and left the leadership beaming that he "respected" China. They returned the compliment with a long-awaited $2 billion order for Boeing 737s. When Powell met George W. Bush in 1997 at a Texas charity fund raiser...
...hold their breath in anticipation. And he dazzles them with his effortless command. The moment he set foot in the State Department last January, he was met with rapturous applause. When he paid a call in Beijing three months after a U.S. spy plane was forced to land on Hainan island, he coaxed a joke out of somber President Jiang Zemin and left the leadership beaming that he "respected" China. They returned the compliment with a long-awaited $2 billion order for Boeing 737s. When Powell met George W. Bush in 1997 at a Texas charity fund raiser...
...China: B The positive impact of the Hainan crisis appears to have been forcing the administration to make up its mind on China, and despite the tough talk it appears to be hewing in the direction of engagement. Bush heads there in the fall, and despite apparently intractable differences on issues from human rights to Taiwan, these are unlikely to stop the administration from finding ways to coexist with Beijing...