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...China had so much to lose by putting Bush in a corner that U.S. analysts found it hard to figure Beijing's motives. Why would Jiang stake so much on one spy plane? He could have fed the U.S. crew a nice Chinese meal and sent them home, earning all kinds of Western goodwill. Instead, he kept raising the stakes, demanding an apology before anyone had a chance to investigate the incident or debrief the pilots on either side...
Furthermore, there is a fundamental principle at stake beyond who owns the lecture notes—the principle that knowledge, particularly knowledge with educational value, should be as open and accessible as possible. It is an appeal to this principle that drives our natural impulse to protect public libraries and public school systems...
...rush to promote an alternative plan; Joe Lieberman was forced to take a “private journey” from privatization; and GOP nominee George Bush had confidently urged the parties to end the “politics of fear” and give every American a stake in the booming stock market...
...China had so much to lose by putting Bush in a corner that U.S. analysts found it hard to figure Beijing's motives. Why would Jiang stake so much on one spy plane? He could have fed the U.S. crew a nice Chinese meal and sent them home, earning all kinds of Western goodwill. Instead, he kept raising the stakes, demanding an apology before anyone had a chance to investigate the incident or debrief the pilots on either side...
...combines the characters for danger and opportunity. Despite the risks to U.S.-China relations, a small group of China specialists in Washington views the spy-plane incident as the best chance yet to alert the Establishment to Beijing's growing strategic threat to the U.S. "This basically puts a stake through the heart of appeasement," says Edward Timperlake, a former Marine fighter pilot and an author who worked in the Reagan Administration...