Word: salesman
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...blue box, the obligatory Chinese gift for visitors. The suit fits perfectly. His English, polished at Harvard, flows like hot green tea with honey. He settles back into his chair, looks you deep in the eyes and begins the seduction. "Zhou Mingwei," says a U.S. official, "is the best salesman the Chinese have...
...into this walks the master salesman. Zhou is the Deputy Minister for Taiwan Affairs. He is young for the job--in his mid-40s in a government and culture where real responsibility generally arrives at around 60. Zhou's years of studies in the U.S. were what qualified him for his last job, as the guy in Shanghai responsible for playing host to foreign big shots, such as Microsoft's Bill Gates and GE's Jack Welch. Zhou picked up their style. But his politics are old China...
...hoped to dilute by his visit. And Taiwan will continue to cherish its independence. China offers Taiwan reunification with the chance to keep its army and its government and not pay a penny in taxes. But Taipei has those things already. So Zhou and his colleagues face the ultimate salesman's challenge: selling something the customer doesn't want and doesn't need...
...consistency." And though the message of "negotiate or fight" has been consistent, that is not what the Bush Administration means. It wants consistent softness: on human rights, on trade and on Taiwan. It is the one thing both Taipei and Washington are interested in, but also the one thing salesman Zhou didn't have anywhere in his sample case...
...presidential pardons and 36 commutations. Marc Rich, who has been living as a fugitive in Switzerland since his 1983 indictment on tax evasion and fraud, is among those receiving pardons. The voluminous list also names several other controversial figures, including convicted drug trafficker Carlos Vignali and notorious snake oil salesman Glenn Braswell...