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...James Lilley, a former U.S. ambassador to China, explains, "China sees America snuggling up to India and kicking Pakistan in the shins, recognizing Vietnam, selling F-16s to Taiwan, walking hand in hand with Japan into the 21st century, wanting a united Korea under Seoul allied with the U.S." What does it look like from the Chinese perspective? Lilley answers his own question: "A ring around China...
...centers like the military while putting cronies from Shanghai into top positions. Lately he has also shown a willingness to punish his enemies, real and potential, turning one of the country's periodic anticorruption drives into a purge. "The anticorruption campaign and the succession struggle are intertwined," says James Lilley, former U.S. ambassador to China and now an American Enterprise Institute fellow, "and both are heating up." Many analysts in Beijing see Jiang's hand behind a series of corruption arrests targeted at top officials in the Beijing city government. Thus far the highest victim was a vice mayor...
...struggle is the threat that they or their children could become targets. That may be impossible to avoid in today's China. "Everyone is on the take," says an Asian diplomat in Beijing, "from top bureaucrats to doctors and waitresses." "It's been said there are three options," says Lilley. "Shoot the corrupt, let them go free, or muddle through. Their only option is the third...
...Clinton has been reborn as a New Realist. The articulated heart of this philosophy is the need "to grow America's economy." The unarticulated dark side is, as James Lilley, a former U.S. Ambassador to China says, "the reassertion of geopolitics after the honeymoon with human rights." Assuring the personal freedom of everyone everywhere is still supposed to be America's great goal, but it will not be permitted to interfere ultimately with Clinton's trade-first strategy. No one would put it as baldly as Calvin Coolidge did when he said the business of America is business, but Christopher...
...show. Loesser's catchy titles and skewed wit helped lodge many a song in the musical muscle memory of anyone who loves vintage pop: Heart and Soul and Two Sleepy People (music by Hoagy Carmichael), I Don't Want to Walk Without You (Jule Styne), Jingle Jangle Jingle (Joseph Lilley), Hoop-Dee-Doo (Milton DeLugg). And when Loesser began marrying his own music to his words, he hatched even more smashes: What Are You Doing New Year's Eve? On a Slow Boat to China and a few instant standards, including No Two People and Wonderful Copenhagen...