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...been decided days ago that China and Russia were more important to a multi- year, multi-prong campaign than any heat taken from a few days away from Washington. European officials had flocked to the White House to be seen with Bush, boasted senior aides, but the APEC audience was tougher. Some of the 21 member countries like Malaysia and Indonesia had shown support for the U.S. soon after the tradgedy, but were now facing riots in their streets. Russia and China were powers that needed Bush's personal attention. Phone calls wouldn't do. Plus, a president cannot...
...time Bush boarded Air Force One to return to Washington Sunday night he had accomplished quite a good deal. The member nations of APEC had made a public declaration condemning terrorism, which, while stopping well short of endorsement for the American action, nevertheless allowed the Bush administration to claim support for its campaign. Russian President Vladimir Putin had shown even further warming to the U.S. position of dismantling the 1972 Antiballistic Missile Treaty. And, Bush had gotten through the traditional APEC class photo - where each leader is condemned to wear a gaudy shirt of his host country-without looking goofy...
...blowback? Not Al Gore. "That is the American message and I am proud to deliver it here and anywhere I go," he told reporters after New Zealand, Singapore and China joined Malaysia in needling the veep for bringing politics to a summit that's supposed to be all business. "APEC is an economic forum," said New Zealand's Prime Minister Jenny Shipley, whose country will host next year's summit. "Clearly there are some pressing bilateral issues that countries want to raise here in Malaysia, but it should not be at the expense of APEC...
...policy. It was Anwar's chumminess with the IMF that got him in trouble, he says, and it's Mahathir's nose-thumbing capital controls, not his long-time thuggery, that have the U.S. so riled. And notice that Mahathir's Asian counterparts were careful to stick up for APEC -- not Mahathir. "He's isolated himself so much from the rest of the region," says McAllister, "that the U.S. really doesn't have much to worry about...
...says TIME U.N. correspondent William Dowell. "It's hard to see what Washington can do except withhold money, and that would only make the situation worse in Indonesia," says Dowell. "Suharto is the most important U.S. ally in the region. He was the one who brought Asian leaders into APEC and convinced them to stand up to China...