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...outside a suburban Shanghai villa, the President was standing with his Chinese counterpart--the leader of a nation Bush had recently identified as a "strategic competitor" of the U.S.--as the two men sang from the same songbook. President Jiang Zemin condemned "terrorism in all its forms," while Bush, beaming, said Jiang and his government "stand side by side with the American people as we fight this evil force." Two days later, Bush met Russian President Vladimir Putin, into whose soul he had peered approvingly four months ago. Bush and Putin discussed the size of cuts the U.S. is ready...
...they moved with purpose, shooing us with words and waves like we were pigeons. There were about fifteen of us, gathered with an equal number of Chinese colleagues at the appointed spot last Thursday to cover President Bush's arrival for his first ever meeting with Chinese President, Jiang Zemin. Our escort, who had taken us through multiple security checks had either turned against us or disappeared. He was replaced by a new fellow who yelled at our former escort and then at us. A daisy chain of authority followed: a new man would arrive, yell at the previous shepherd...
...visit to the Shinto shrine that honors Japan's war dead and his tacit approval of a revisionist textbook that waters down wartime aggression Koizumi's plan: Use personal charm in diplomatic tete-a-tetes with Asian counterparts Outlook: POOR. Korea's Kim Dae Jung and China's Jiang Zemin have snubbed his overtures. They want concessions before they'll talk. Giving in would make Koizumi look bad at home...
...effortless command. The moment he set foot in the State Department last January, he was met with rapturous applause. When he paid a call in Beijing three months after a U.S. spy plane was forced to land on Hainan island, he coaxed a joke out of somber President Jiang Zemin and left the leadership beaming that he "respected" China. They returned the compliment with a long-awaited $2 billion order for Boeing 737s. When Powell met George W. Bush in 1997 at a Texas charity fund raiser, the new Governor stepped forward and saluted: "General, Texas is reporting for duty...
...effortless command. The moment he set foot in the State Department last January, he was met with rapturous applause. When he paid a call in Beijing three months after a U.S. spy plane was forced to land on Hainan island, he coaxed a joke out of somber President Jiang Zemin and left the leadership beaming that he "respected" China. They returned the compliment with a long-awaited $2 billion order for Boeing 737s. When Powell met George W. Bush in 1997 at a Texas charity fund raiser, the new Governor stepped forward and saluted: "General, Texas is reporting for duty...