this is a troll, right? *clinton* 'made china a partisan campaign issue'? and before that, 'china'--scare quotes to distinguish it from the Thing Itself--was some imaginary neutral object that neither exerted nor was susceptible to being used as a polemical force on the US political scene? no 'chi-coms,' no 'veitnam,' no 'china hands,' no 'who lost china' (to say nothing of the endless spew of self-serving lies that elder sta^W sociopaths RN and HK have spoon- fed to the US foreign policy establishent): we've never heard these phrases before, they make no sense. you will permit me to politely suggest that you're rather off-base, i hope.
as a methodological note, i'll add: i love claims like 'so-and-so made it a partisan campaign issue' because they serve as a remarkably accurate index--a proportional index--for the inability to comment coherently on how US politics works.
> Now the converted Clinton, along with his Democrat successor, will have to
> take his own medicine from the Republicans. China will be a domestic
better: one more installment in the two parties duking it out.
> political issue back to the Truman days and that lasted until Nixon.
> There are still cool heads in both parties, but they will lay low during
> election time every four years.
oh yeah--bush jr, son of bush, sr., who has no interest whatsoever in perpetuating a certain historiography of US/PRC relations. I'm So Sure.
cheers, ted