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All about the money — Economy, not rights, rules the new China–US world

November 30, 2008 By Northwest Asian Weekly

BEIJING (AP) — As a dangerous confrontation flared between China and Taiwan in 1996, Bill Clinton deployed the Seventh Fleet to deter the two rivals from going to war. Five years later, when a U.S. spy plane collided with a Chinese fighter, George W. Bush faced a prolonged international crisis. Meanwhile, human rights and democracy in China were a perennial hot-button issue.

Filed Under: News, World News Tagged With: 2008, Barack Obama, Beijing Olympics, Bill Clinton, Cheng Xiaohe, China, Chinese, Iran, Jin Canrong, New York, North Korea, President George Bush, Renmin University, Seventh Fleet, Taiwan Strait, Wei Jingsheng, vol 27 no 49 | November 29 - December 5

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