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...serious is the U.S.-China trade spat? With a U.S. election looming and the American economy making a tentative recovery, it could turn much worse?more for political than economic reasons. Last week, after Washington announced plans to slap quotas on imports of Chinese bras, nightgowns and knitwear, Beijing was quick to fire back. It postponed a delegation that was going to the U.S. to buy commodities, and the U.S. ambassador in Beijing was twice summoned for official chidings. An editorial in the China Daily derided "the cheap political points the Bush Administration scored by touting trade protectionism...
...Chinese government has been countering American complaints that it keeps its currency undervalued to promote exports by buying some $6 billion worth of American goods. But even a December visit by Premier Wen Jiabao to Washington for talks with President George W. Bush is unlikely to settle a spat rooted as much in domestic politics as international trade...
...normally collegial, bipartisan work of the Senate Intelligence Committee ground to a standstill last week in an unusual public spat over whether the panel should determine whether blame for poor prewar intelligence in Iraq lies with the CIA - or the White House...
According to Slater, Harvard’s standing among blacks suffered a further setback after former Fletcher University Professor Cornel R. West ’74, a prominent scholar in what was then called the Department of Afro-American Studies, left Harvard for Princeton in 2002 following a spat with University President Lawrence H. Summers...
...Chen appears to be doing his best to provoke Beijing. On Sept. 1, Taiwan changed the wording on its passports to read Taiwan instead of the Republic of China. Yet he's still lagging in the polls. Chen badly needs a spat with China?but Beijing isn't taking the bait...