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Viewpoint: The Fading Red Label
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All's well that ends well? In their first serious foreign policy test, the neophyte Bushies have met the Chinese challenge over Hainan with deftness and aplomb tough on the basics, creative on the fine line between "regret" and "apology." The troops are home; the spy plane that was almost decapitated by a hotshot Chinese pilot will follow after the Chinese have taken apart every radar, sensor and computer inside. But this was neither the beginning nor the end of the great U.S.-Chinese duel that will dominate 21st century diplomacy as did the Soviet-American contest in the 20th. For the...