Hand-Off: The China Policy George W. Bush Passed to Barack Obama
China in the World
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Bush's Work on China
In 2000, when Bush was running for president, a team of CIA analysts were sent by the National Security Council to give him a courtesy briefing on foreign policy. When they arrived at his ranch in Waco, Texas, there were two cultural revolution propaganda posters that didn't fit with his image as a China hard liner. He laughed and he said, you have the New York Times, has it all wrong on me on China? The second story I will tell just to show how in detail he worked on China, even though he had 9-11, the war in Iraq, the global war on terrorism, weighing on his mind, he still really worked at figuring out how to work with the
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