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President Clinton met Friday with a key Hong Kong democrat, but it was Washington Republicans who may have made the President's day. GOP leaders, who had begun preparing a deluge of anti-China legislation in the run-up to Clinton's departure, now concede that the President's trip has been a success, and it's failed to produce the election fodder they had anticipated. Newt Gingrich, who had earlier called for the trip's postponement, admitted Clinton's triumph and approved of a closer U.S.-China relationship through gritted teeth. "It's less expensive to be friends than...
...President's trip has been strongly business-oriented, and he spent most of his final day in Hong Kong revisiting the Asian crisis, and praising China's discipline in holding the line against devaluation. Business, of course, is exactly what corporate America wants to do with China, which is part of the reason Republicans are feeling the pressure to sing along...
Harvard spokesperson Alex Huppe added thatRudenstine's trip was not strictly academic inscope. It was also aimed at wooing potentialdonors to Harvard's $2.1 billion capital campaign,due to be completed...
Rudenstine said this trip has deepened hisunderstanding of China's present and past...
...itself off of coal-burning energy. The green paradise, located amid the urban pollution of China's economic boom, provided the perfect backdrop for Clinton to do an environmental take on the salute-the-progress-but-warn-of-the-challenges routine that has become a hallmark of his China trip. "I believe that China has a unique opportunity -- because you're developing rapidly, but later in time than other countries -- to avoid some of the terrible mistakes we made," said the President...