Word: hainan
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...major foreign policy test of President Bush's first six months was the Hainan spy-plane standoff with China, and he passed with flying colors. The President quickly scaled back his tough talk when the two sides found themselves locked into a crisis that could set them on a collision course, and allowed his aides to fashion face-saving exit that kept the relationship on track. Media speculation had it that Papa Bush and some of his advisers had weighed in gently at the height of the crisis, and if this is so it is to be welcomed - after...
...Chen Shui-bian visited New York and attended a dinner with a group of U.S. congressmen - a substantial shift in the way U.S. administrations have dealt with the island's leaders. In the more hostile atmosphere that has characterized U.S.-China relations under the Bush administration - particularly after the Hainan spy-plane standoff - Washington is happy to find symbolic gestures through which to stand up to Beijing...
...between the three front-runners to host the 2008 Summer Games - Beijing, Paris and Toronto. And while there may be a number of legislators on both sides of the aisle on Capitol Hill who'd love to use the issue stick it to Beijing in the wake of the Hainan spy-plane standoff, the Bush administration is unlikely to try and stop China landing the games...
...administration. They were forced to bite their tongues as Powell moved to bring Washington's Iraq policy more in line with its Arab allies by calling for a relaxation of many sanctions against Baghdad while seeking to tighten control over access to military technology. And during the Hainan spy plane standoff, the Defense Secretary found himself sidelined - it was prudent for the Bush Administration, during those difficult days, to muzzle the man who'd only weeks earlier told the U.S. military that its primary mission was to build the capability to fight and win a land war in Asia. Only...
...those more suspicious of Beijing to get the upper hand at a time when the administration had not yet formulated its China policy. Again, it might be that the Bush administration would have wanted to take a tougher line with China on a number of issues, but the Hainan standoff set them off on the wrong foot, because they've been forced to improvise a China policy...