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To: RealMuLan who wrote (15151)11/8/2004 2:38:01 PM
From: RealMuLan  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 116555
 
LOL--Beijing in a bind over fluffed lines
By Antoaneta Bezlova

BEIJING - The 2004 vote for the US president would have gone down in history as one of the most painless polls for China, since Washington recognized its communist government in 1979 - had it not been for a political gaffe committed by a senior retired Beijing statesman on the eve of the elections. Now it's time for damage control and Beijing couldn't be more effusive in its praise of the winner, especially after a US campaign devoid of traditional China bashing over lost jobs and human rights. The English-language China Daily even gushed: "Today's Bush is no longer the ignorant, arrogant Western cowboy of the past."
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