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...encountered in Bosnia had we let ourselves be drawn in by genocide. What would have happened in Somalia had we not pulled out when our boys started getting fired at? Just imagine what conflicts we could have had with China had we held human rights in higher esteem than Sino-American trade. Or if we had pushed the envelope with Russian President Boris Yeltsin on his advances in Chechnya...
...Secretary of State Warren Christopher, American officials announced that Beijing's plans to sell two nuclear reactors to Iran had been terminated. Not so, said Qian. The sale had been suspended only because of problems with the original site. Western diplomats, looking for signs of a thaw in Sino-American relations, think Qian's denial may be merely an attempt to save face back home...
...will succeed Deng Xiaoping. "To appear weak before the U.S. puts potential successors in a vulnerable position," says Robert Ross, a visiting professor at the College of Foreign Affairs in Beijing. Testifying before Congress last week, Henry Kissinger, the advance man for President Nixon's opening to China, said, "Sino-American relations are in free fall." For a good indication of how far they will fall, watch what happens to Harry...
...Nationalist heirs is an open rebuke of their legitimacy and a thumb in their eye -- even as they pursue detente with the island's regime and ardently court Taiwan investment and trade. China's leaders are wondering whether Clinton was signaling both a reversal of 23 years of Sino-American rapprochement and a precedent for other countries, including Japan, to follow. A Western diplomat in Beijing remarked, "I think what is of concern to them is less the specific development than where such a development could lead...
Young Professor of Sino-Vietnamese HistoryHue-Tam Ho Tai, who taught the large courseHistorical Study B-68, "America and Vietnam:1945-1975" this spring, says students can beshort-changed by TFs found at the last minute...