Word: hawkishness
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...game To their credit, those in the Bush administration who had taken the toughest anti-China stand stood back and let the doves handle this one. The outcome may be a victory for diplomacy and the dovish policy of engagement with the leadership in Beijing, but those of hawkish inclination will still cite the midair collision and Beijing's initial reactions as further evidence of what they believe is China's hostile intent toward...
Sharon convened his cabinet at 6:30 Wednesday evening with a joke that has serious implications for peace. The Prime Minister had just held a meeting with Foreign Minister Shimon Peres, who shared a Nobel Peace Prize with Arafat for the Oslo peace accords. Sharon, whose reputation is as hawkish as Peres' is dovish, told his cabinet that Peres had advocated a stronger response: "Peres is more aggressive than I am." Peres responded, "Yes, he had to restrain me this time." It was another sign that there is a deep anger among supporters of the peace process who feel Arafat...
Although last Sunday's midair crash cost President Jiang an airman and a plane, it may nonetheless have been a windfall for the Chinese leader. Pilloried by hawkish critics for having responded too limply to NATO's erroneous bombing of China's Belgrade embassy two years ago, this week Jiang set out to burnish his prestige by acting as if he had Washington over a barrel...
...Moreover, the most important guarantor of any Chinese leader's power today is the military, led by men of hawkish instinct inclined to see the U.S. as an implacable...
...problem with the hard line is that it tends to beget the hard line. Hawkish elements in the Chinese leadership may be content to drag out the standoff over a downed U.S. spy plane in the hope of backing the U.S. away from selling sophisticated weapons to Taiwan - and, perhaps, to score domestic political points against their more reformist rivals in Beijing's arcane leadership struggle. But if anything, by openly challenging President Bush's prestige in its handling of the incident, Beijing may have ultimately reinforced the hawkish trend in Washington...