Word: partnership
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...fundamentally different countries. China is ruled by an authoritarian regime that seeks to increase its military influence abroad. The U.S., on the other hand, is a status quo power that wants to impose its political ideals on other countries. Despite the oft-voiced desire for "partnership" between the two nations, it seems that there is little for them to agree on. While the mistaken bombing of the Chinese embassy in Belgrade was, in and of itself, a minor incident, it has removed the Band-Aids that had been applied to cover this gaping wound in the U.S.-China relationship. Good...
...Clinton Administration has sought positive relations with China, but it will take something more meaningful than simply a willingness to forgive to keep the U.S.-China partnership together. Accusations have surfaced that the Clinton Administration ignored evidence of Chinese nuclear espionage and illegal money transfers in order to improve relations. If the alliance is an artificial one without strong foundation, the combined effect of such provocations (as well as what is likely to be a steady stream of human rights violations) will eventually break any U.S. consensus for partnership. The same is true for the Chinese public, which will...
...endorse efforts to maintain positive U.S.-China relations because antagonizing China would have little chance of achieving U.S. aims. A powerful China hostile to the U.S. would be a dangerous, destabilizing world force. But unless the leadership in Washington can make the case that partnership with China advances vital interests on both sides--and its counterpart in Beijing can do the same--any political concord between the U.S. and China will be doomed to failure...
With last week's $60 billion acquisition of cable company MediaOne and a $5 billion partnership with Microsoft, AT&T and chairman C. Michael Armstrong have completed the first stages of a plan to remake the famously ponderous long-distance telephone company into a new-economy supernova. And if it seems hard to imagine that the cable bringing you Matlock reruns and Stone Cold Steve Austin will be your sole electronic connection with the outside world, get used...
Moved PermanentlyMoved PermanentlyFortune Investor DataAccording to the New York Times, AT&T is close to inking a partnership with the House of Gates in which Microsoft, for $5 billion, would get a 2 to 3 percent slice of AT&T. More important, Microsoft would get the only thing it likes better than cash: market share, via a commitment from AT&T to use Windows software in every set-top Internet/phone/cable box that AT&T will be running wires into. Is the new Ma Cable moving a little too fast? Not if the deal was Microsoft's price for staying...