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In article <23JUL199212363943@arecibo.aero.org> terwill@arecibo.aero.org writes:

>>And China---a major omission from this list.  Bush's brother has
>>invested a great deal of money in a hotel (for foreigners, of course)
>>in Beijing.  In other words: the Bush family has, for several years,
>>had a major financial stake in China having good relations with the
>>United States and Europe.
>> 
>>Think about that fact the next time you wonder why Bush was so eager
>>to cozy up to the Chinese leaders even after Tiananman Square.
>
>..as someone who will really enjoy voting against Bush and his running mate
>(although the alternate is poor on an equal basis but for different units of
>measurement) I still feel your logic here is quite flawed and not rationally
>thought out, although I suspect this is far from the first time this is true. I
>believe Bush, rare that it may be, is choosing the lesser of two evils on
>China. The "easy" decision is to cut off all relations, send China back to
>being an isolated nation with a very bright population and an irrational fear
>of all outsiders and creating a sleeping dragon to deal with later. Bush, for
>whatever reason, even the one you and your supermarket tabloid mind have
>expressed, has taken the heated path on this one and kept some light shinning
>through a bamboo curtain. It is similar to a social worker or parole officer
>intervening with a cop for the good of the individuals family. 
>
>Bush is bad for the country but he has balls to take this position and he is
>not the root of all evil. Sorry, but half-truths like yours just draw
>attention away from the valid issues people should consider.


You speak as though Bush's policy with respect to China is founded in a
consistent philopshical position held by Bush with respect to foreign policy.

It is not.

Rather, the positon espoused by Bush wrt China is entirely ad hoc, which is
evidenced by his arbitrary decisions to take the opposite approach with other
countries.


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J. S. Greenfield                                         greeny@top.cis.syr.edu
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but my d*mn system wants a 
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