Word: washingtonization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...good and evil, and invokes Jesus Christ's parable of the sower to explain how media violence subverts children. In New Hampshire, Gore compared the alienation of Cain--the first murderer--with the forces that drove two teenagers to commit the same sin in Colorado. He mused to a Washington Post columnist that society has finally reached "the end of a 400-year period of allergy to faith...
Read on to find out if you should believe those shocking headlines. But whether "understated," as Cox and many other Republicans claim, or an exaggerated "worst case," as many intelligence experts and Democrats respond, the report is sparking political fallout that imperils U.S. relations with China. Partisans in Washington have seized on the allegations to fight another election-time round of "who lost China." Beijing has denied all the charges strenuously, and its hard-liners wave the report as proof of hostility from a superpower out to "contain" a rising China. Both countries threaten to disrupt the delicate balancing...
...information sometime between 1984 and 1992. But the CIA concluded the person who proffered the document was actually an agent for the Chinese government. That immediately raised suspicion among White House and CIA officials that Beijing, for some unfathomable reason, may have been conducting a disinformation campaign to make Washington believe it had the U.S.'s most precious military secrets. The document, what's more, is cited as a major piece of evidence that China filched designs for four other warheads "sometime prior" to 1995. To this day, neither the intelligence community nor arms-control experts know whether China...
...China has been more like a car thief stealing a hubcap here, a fuel-injection system there--but that doesn't mean it can build a Mercedes from the bits and pieces. Although no one minimizes the possible future impact of China's aggressive acquisitions, almost every expert in Washington and Beijing says it will take the struggling nation decades to translate information it has pilfered into a superpower's ranks of bristling missiles...
While the Cox report harps on spying, what China stole is dwarfed by what it got legally. It's no secret that once Washington threw open the doors 20 years ago, a lot of Chinese exploited this country's freedom to soak up material from unclassified publications, study at the best universities, download technical reports from the Net. Beijing skillfully stitched the tidbits together into the rudiments of a new nuclear arsenal. The high-tech revolution here has moved cutting-edge military information into the civilian mainstream, making a lot of dangerous know-how available to potential enemies. That...