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...also have an overriding interest in working together to improve their relationship. That's familiar talk to anyone following China policy, even if it is a shift in tone for the Bush administration. Campaigning last fall, Bush pegged China as a strategic competitor. Earlier this year, defense secretary Donald Rumsfeld suggested it was time for the military to orient its strategic thinking toward the objective of containing Chinese regional ambitions in Asia. Bush also broke a taboo by vowing to "do whatever it takes" to defend Taiwan against an attack from the mainland - although that may have been a rhetorical...
...Along the way, he absorbed the passion of his briefers, Star Wars true believers from the Reagan days brought together by Rice to tutor him in the canons of their strategic religion. Those voices evidently captured his imagination, and now in his Administration, led vigorously by Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, they urge...
...DONALD RUMSFELD Swing and a hit. Fourth Star Wars test a success. Program's batting average...
...buying bikes for his kids. Karl Rove will blow it on school clothes, home furnishings "and something for Daisy, the dog." Budget director Mitch Daniels will give it to his daughter to save - "but she may find a way to spend it," he says hopefully. Multimillionaire Donald Rumsfeld is opting for services - he says he'll use it to pay his accountant. And Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill, who's signing the checks, is giving it to charity...
...pushed for a plea, getting support in swaying Attorney General John Ashcroft from such corners as Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and CIA chief George Tenet and would clearly prefer the back-room route from here on out. For one thing, a trial would have forced prosecutors to put on the witness stand the FBI's prize source - a Russian who stole Hanssen's KGB file from Moscow Center, as Russian intelligence headquarters is known, and handed it over to the bureau. For another, the National Security Agency would have had to reveal highly classified details about its communications intercept capabilities...