Word: maladroit
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...that had just slaughtered thousands of its citizens. The President explained that preserving U.S. leverage over future developments in that largest of Third World communist nations meant avoiding the temptation to "isolate" its government. Bush was properly criticized not for the principle he was enunciating but for the gratuitous, maladroit way he applied it. Simply keeping his ambassador in Beijing should have sufficed...