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Article: The Stability of Deterrence in the Taiwan Strait.
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- The National Interest
- Article date:
- September 22, 2001
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THE CASE can and has been made that the foreign policy of the Bush Administration differs little from that of its predecessor. Only the rhetoric has changed, it has been claimed, and even some of that is falling back into old patterns--with regard to North Korea, the Arab-Israeli conflict, and what to do about Ba'athi Iraq. [1] Remaining differences of rhetoric, it is said, mask essential continuity. The Bush Administration carries a more unilateralist tone over a range of issues--the Kyoto Protocol, the International Criminal Court, proposals to verify the 1972 Biological Weapons Treaty and control the flow of small arms--but it is not clear that the Clinton ...