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...Clintonic mood, words lose meaning. Every ultimatum is really a penultimatum; ever penultimatum an antepenultimatum, and very indication that everything is negotiable up to and past the stand deadline...
...should come as little surprise that Clinton is trying to wigglehis way out of following through on his ultimatum to China. Clinton made a specific campaign point of his own firmness about cutting off trade benefits to China if its leaders did not improve their human rights record. George Bush, according to the paragon of Arkansanian virtue, was a Sinophile prone to coddling his old friends in the PRC gerontocracy...
...annual June 3 deadline is once again approaching, and predictably, the ultimatum is becoming less ultimate. Not that China has taken any steps to remedy its dismal record of engaging slave labor and persecuting dissidence; in fact, in the last few months, Jiang Zemin's regime has bullied prominent dissidents with a particularly gleeful abandon. At his Seattle summit with Secretary of State Warren "the Romulan" Christopher, Jiang struck a strident tone, warning the hapless Secretary to lay off China's internal affairs...
Instead Clinton will muddle through and in the process further muddy the meaning of a Presidential ultimatum. In theory, certain specific classes of products will be subject to a duty, although there is no indication that such selective sanction are administratively feasible. Practical concerns of execution are irrelevant, since the application of this ballyhooed wrist-slapping is aimed only at impressing the voting public, not depressing the Chinese economy...
...Boston Serbs have not failed to comprehend this lesson. Month after month of "final deadline" came and went, culminating in nothing more than an aptly-named "pinprick bombing". General Cedras, the Haitian strongman, also knows that there's no reason to quake before the Clintonic ultimatum...