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

To: Scumbria who wrote (136219)	4/6/2001 11:14:09 PM
From: ManyMoose	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

Punish China for releasing our people? <<He should say something nice, get the troops back, and then punish China.>> Even a dog learns behavior that is reinforced positively and creates new misbehavior when punished. Look, you aren't the only one who works with Asians. As a rule, they never accept blame when it is their fault and they do not respect capitulation.

To: Scumbria who wrote (136219)	4/6/2001 11:16:44 PM
From: greenspirit	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

I believe he is doing that. Sometimes these things take more time then we would like, but I believe our troops will be home before next weekend. Bush still has a lot of cards to play, the Chinese need us far more then we need them. They're the ones with an 88 billion dollar trade surplus in their favor. In some ways this incident has opened our eyes toward blind investments in China. Businesses may now take a second, and then third look before they relocate a factory to China. We are still dealing with a communist government, who's leaders fully expect, and are preparing for a war with America. Our hope continues to be that more trade and more relations, will lead them toward freedom and liberty. But that outcome is far from certain. A good friend of mine just returned from teaching a Human Resource class in Bejing. Some of the stories she told me were quite amazing. The Chinese students studying business degrees (many for the first time), are quite resourceful. Every book she brings they want to immediately copy. Each class it is assumed has a communist party member in it, so getting the students involved in open discussions has been quite difficult for her. The fear of the party still exists in China. She once made the mistake of asking harmlessly while involved in a topic, "what is your unemployment rate"?. The students just clammed up and stared at their books. It wasn't until the break when she was quietly told. "You don't ask that in china, it's 0"