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...Chose Him For bringing home 24 Americans from Hainan and helping his boss out of a bind while avoiding turning an incident into a crisis, Secretary of State Colin Powell is our Person of the Week...
...Taiwan: Win-win winners It was Taiwan's interests that the U.S. spy plane was defending on the mission that led to the Hainan standoff, and tensions between Washington and Beijing inevitably play to Taipei's advantage. While the standoff won't necessarily increase the likelihood of Taiwan's being sold the weapons it desires, it's unlikely to have decreased that likelihood. The Bush administration won't use Taiwan arms sales to punish Beijing, but it may find it difficult to soften its position on the Aegis sale in the wake of the standoff. And on Capitol Hill...
...Most importantly, perhaps, the administration should resist the temptation to link the resolution of the Hainan standoff with other issues, such as China's accession to the World Trade Organization, their bid to host the Olympics in 2008, and arms sales to Taiwan. It would be dangerous and myopic to link all those issues and turn them into a single win-or-lose game. Each issue should be decided on its own merits - as the administration is saying it will...
...depends on what you mean by "sorry." Or more correctly, what exactly you're sorry for. Diplomatic copywriters continued their frenzied search Monday for a mutually acceptable language that would allow China and the U.S. to resolve the standoff over the downed U.S. spy plane at Hainan. The domestic political pressures on both sides were visible over the weekend as China appeared unyielding in its demand for a U.S. apology as the precondition for handing back the 24 detained U.S. personnel and their plane, while Bush administration officials reiterated that there would be no apology and warned that prolonging...
...Jiang's absence from Beijing is giving greater weight to statements emanating from the military, which is taking a harder line in part because of its own embarrassment at losing a pilot and a plane and then apparently being taken by surprise when the stricken U.S. aircraft arrived in Hainan. In some quarters of the Chinese military, the option has been raised of putting the U.S. personnel on trial, an intolerable option for Washington which would raise the pressure for some form of diplomatic retaliation...