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

To: Scumbria who wrote (136924)	4/10/2001 9:47:59 AM
From: gao seng	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

From Business Week: JUST LIKE OLD TIMES. In fact, some critics see the Bush Administration's surfeit of "experience" in key positions as more worrisome than Junior's lack of it. I speak, of course, of the graybeards back in charge of the country -- cranky old cold warriors like Vice-President Dick Cheney and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld. After the pizza-faced, pizza-eating, beer-drinking, dope-smoking, policy-drunk, know-it-all young wonks of the early Clinton years and the strangely pragmatic political operatives who ascended in the later Clinton years, it must have been a severe shock to the Chinese and Russians when they awoke after the Florida recount to find the same steel-eyed faces they had encountered years before staring down from the tiller of state. It's as if, over a decade after Gorbachev and the fallen wall in Berlin, the West was again confronted with those sour-faced men of the Kremlin in bad hats and long coats, reviewing rainy-day parades of tanks and troops. BEND OR BREAK? Right now, the Chinese are testing Dubya and using the incident to influence future behavior by the Administration. They very much want to derail new U.S. arms sales to Taiwan. Chinese officials may not yet know the younger Bush, but they are keen to discover if he will bend the way Clinton did. But if Dubya's refusal to apologize for the spy plane incident is any indication, they are likely to be disappointed. And while the Chinese hierarchy may exploit the situation for its own internal purposes, it's not about to do anything rash. Even with a skittish American President in short pants, the old men of Beijing know better than to push the old men of Washington too hard. businessweek.com