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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Scumbria who wrote (136170)	4/6/2001 7:15:54 PM
From: gao seng	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

OK, unfair question. The strategic partner crap was a jab at Clinton. How could anyone be so naive to say that they are our Strategic Partner? The harsh part was a blatant attempt to pigeonhole you into the 6% category of Americans. A pretty good poll here, I was surprised so many feel as you do. I think integrity matters. Apologizing to a bully for stealing your lunch money is practical as a means to expedite matters. But when the world sees you as a coward, well, it hurts. This link from Yahoo has great coverage: Most-viewed external news stories dailynews.yahoo.com Public Rallies Around Bush Over China Standoff By Richard Morin and Claudia Deane Washington Post Staff Writers The American public has rallied around President Bush as he confronted the first major foreign policy crisis of his administration following the collision of a Chinese jet fighter and a U.S. surveillance aircraft on Sunday, according to a Washington Post-ABC News poll. Nearly two in three – 64 percent – of those interviewed said they approved of the way Bush has handled the situation with China while 24 percent disapproved and the remainder expressed no opinion. A slight majority – 54 percent – said the United States should not apologize to China for the collision, a move demanded by the Chinese but rejected by President Bush. But 40 percent said the United States should apologize. An even larger majority – 74 percent – said the Bush administration should restrict trade with China to force the return of the U.S. plane, which had to make an emergency landing on the Chinese island of Hainan after it collided with the fighter over the China Sea. Six in 10 also rejected China's demand that the United States reduce its intelligence-gathering flights designed to intercept Chinese communications. More than eight in 10 Americans say they are concerned over China's delay in releasing the U.S. plane and its 24-person crew. Three in four said the incident posed a threat to U.S. - China relations. But the survey also found that the public is not ready to blame either China or the United States for the collision – one of several signs that the incident had not yet deeply stirred the passions of a clear majority of Americans. Forty-six percent said the collision was an accident and another 18 percent said both countries were equally at fault. One in four, however, said the incident was China's fault. Few Americans – only 5 percent – blamed the United States, indicating little sympathy for China's claim that the U.S. plane was at fault in the midair collision, which sent the military jet crashing into the sea. The pilot is presumed dead. A total of 505 randomly selected adults were interviewed Thursday night for this survey. Margin of sampling error for the overall results is plus or minus 5 percentage points. The difficulties of doing a poll in a single night represent additional potential sources of error. The survey suggested that the standoff has done nothing to shake the public's confidence in Bush's ability to handle a foreign crisis. Six in 10 characterized Bush's response to China as "about right." Nearly one in four – 23 percent – wanted Bush to be tougher on the Chinese, including 29 percent of Democrats and 17 percent of Republicans. Only 6 percent said Bush has been too hard on Beijing thus far. Other views of the president's performance remain sharply partisan: nearly nine in ten Republicans approved of his handling of the situation, compared to about half of Democrats. Republicans were also more likely to back Bush's refusal to apologize to the Chinese. Two in three Republicans said the United States should not apologize for the collision, compared to fewer than half of all Democrats. The current confrontation has not demonized China in the eyes of most Americans, the poll found. Nearly six in 10 of those interviewed – 58 percent – saw China as an "unfriendly" country, but only 20 percent currently labeled it an "enemy" of the United States. Still, this week's confrontation between the two superpowers may have hurt China's standing with the American public. A 1998 survey by ABC News found that fewer than half – 47 percent – of those interviewed described China as unfriendly to the United States and 12 percent said it was an enemy, though other events in the past three years, including charges of nuclear espionage and links to election fundraising scandals, also may have tarnished China's image. Americans also expressed broad concern about the incident. But most were not yet ready to declare the standoff a crisis. Roughly eight in 10 said the detention of the crew and their plane is a "cause for concern," but fewer than half – 41 percent – said it was a "cause for alarm."