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To: Scumbria who wrote (136209)	4/11/2001 12:47:58 PM
From: TimF	Respond to of 1585218

"A soft answer turns away wrath". Sometimes. And sometimes it is seen as weakness and causes the other side to push for more in a tense negotiation. I would tend to favor the "soft word" in many situations, but what the Chinese were originally asking for (that the US accept responsibility) is a bit more then a soft word. Now the question is what happens next time the US makes a recon flight 50 to 75 miles off the Chinese coast. Do the Chinese act as aggressively? If they do will the US escort the recon plane? If the Chinese are still going to insist that they are sovereign over most of the South China sea then this might not be the end of the problem. ndu.edu eia.doe.gov Tim