Word: sino
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...allegations to fight another election-time round of "who lost China." Beijing has denied all the charges strenuously, and its hard-liners wave the report as proof of hostility from a superpower out to "contain" a rising China. Both countries threaten to disrupt the delicate balancing act that keeps Sino-American relations from spinning out of control. Nobody wants a new cold war, but overheated emotions could provoke a self-fulfilling prophecy...
...danger is that Clinton's implacable critics, armed with the Cox report, will vent their outrage on the entire Sino-American relationship. They are right to slam the door on Chinese spying, but a sizable number sound ready to turn China into the New Enemy. Washington hardheads talk of holding up the annual renewal of China's normal trade relations (the new bureaucratic label for most-favored- nation trading status) or blocking its entry into the World Trade Organization...
...Wenguo, former head of international Chinese studies at Fudan University in Shanghai. Few see the bombing as a mistake that can be forgiven after a simple apology. "We will have to wait for the new [U.S.] President before the situation will improve," says Zhang Yebai, an expert on Sino-U.S. relations at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences...
Norman Pearlstine's conversation with Chinese President Jiang Zemin [VIEWPOINT, Feb. 22] epitomizes the fundamental problem of contemporary Sino-American relations. Pearlstine gives too much credence to Jiang's diplomatic rhetoric. Until U.S. policymakers understand the actions of this regime and disregard Jiang's hypocritical diplomacy, Beijing's hegemonic agenda will continue to threaten the economic and security interests of free Asia and America. ARTIE MCCONNELL SENIOR RESEARCH ASSISTANT National Defense Council Foundation Alexandria...
...looked very encouraging before Wednesday. After all, just a month ago, Obuchi had signed a written apology to South Korea for Japanese occupation of the peninsula. Why couldn't China obtain a similar statement for a long list of disturbing Japanese actions beginning with the 1894-95 Sino-Japanese...