Word: standoff
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...Hardliners have been buoyed in recent years by a series of U.S. actions that have been interpreted by many ordinary Chinese as signs of hostility from Washington. Even before the Bush administration's tough talk, weapons sales to Taiwan and the spy-plane standoff, there was the Clinton administration's backing down on a WTO deal amid the nuclear espionage brouhaha early in 1999, and the accidental bombing of China's Belgrade embassy that same year. The perception of hostility from the Bush administration was always going to do more to help Beijing's hardliners than to ensure a more...
...visited New York and attended a dinner with a group of U.S. congressmen - a substantial shift in the way U.S. administrations have dealt with the island's leaders. In the more hostile atmosphere that has characterized U.S.-China relations under the Bush administration - particularly after the Hainan spy-plane standoff - Washington is happy to find symbolic gestures through which to stand up to Beijing...
...front-runners to host the 2008 Summer Games - Beijing, Paris and Toronto. And while there may be a number of legislators on both sides of the aisle on Capitol Hill who'd love to use the issue stick it to Beijing in the wake of the Hainan spy-plane standoff, the Bush administration is unlikely to try and stop China landing the games...
...President Bush developed a "carefully engineered game plan" that brought the American air crew home after the standoff with China over the surveillance-plane incident [SPY PLANE FINALE, April 23]? Bush came out at first with a threatening, demanding attitude and received a negative reaction. When it became obvious that his demands impressed no one, more intelligent, well-seasoned people pitched in and came up with a solution. Bush is acting like a high school freshman trying to run a university! May God guide him and protect us. GENE THOMAS Hurst, Texas...
...They were forced to bite their tongues as Powell moved to bring Washington's Iraq policy more in line with its Arab allies by calling for a relaxation of many sanctions against Baghdad while seeking to tighten control over access to military technology. And during the Hainan spy plane standoff, the Defense Secretary found himself sidelined - it was prudent for the Bush Administration, during those difficult days, to muzzle the man who'd only weeks earlier told the U.S. military that its primary mission was to build the capability to fight and win a land war in Asia. Only last...