When Can the Chinese Expect Their Arab Spring?: Jeffrey Goldberg
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May 30 (Bloomberg) -- Hillary Clinton doesn’t makemistakes. Let’s place to the side her unhappy 2008 run for theDemocratic presidential nomination, during which, as they say,mistakes were made. As secretary of State she rarely makes anunforced error. She does, from time to time, economize thetruth, even when speaking about perfectly awful regimes. But sheis a diplomat now, and this is a hazard of the vocation.
So when this diplomat, who does not generally makemistakes, and who is proficient in the use of euphemism, speaksbluntly about the failings of a country on which America isdisconcertingly dependent, my assumption is that we’rewitnessing a deliberate shift in policy.