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mm_■■_mm^Mmmmm A RilC ASH LT Y First flfrican-flmerican Chess Grand master 'The African-American Experience in the World of Chess" Wednesday 28 April 2004 8.00 p.m. * Russell House, Room 322 SPONSORS: Central Carolina Community Foundation, Westinghouse, A. C.Moore Educational Foundation, USC Office of Multicultural StudentAffairs, RegionsBank, Leevy's Funeral Home, Rosel lall Bed & Breakfast, Shandon Council of Churches, St Andrews Presbyterian Church, Richland One Office of After School Programs Diplomacy with Libya, China pins importance BY TOM RAUM THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON - Across the world, it seems that U.S. diploma cy is breaking down. America’s ties with Europe and the United Nations are frayed. The Arab world is furious over U.S. support for Israel on West Bank settlements. Pleas for help in sta bilizing Iraq have found few tak ers. Troops from Spain, Honduras and the Dominican Republic are leaving. And coalition leaders still standing with President Bush face rising political dissent at home. On the other hand, relations are clearly improving with China and Libya. The U.S. overtures to these old totalitarian foes might have startled administration foreign policy hawks just a few years ago, but the Sept. 11, 2001, terror at tacks and wars in Afghanistan and Iraq have produced some seis mic shifts in global dynamics. LiiDya is tsusn s poster cnua oi a rogue regime that saw the light. The administration is poised to lift some sanctions to reward Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi for aban doning weapons of mass destruc tion and accepting responsibility for the 1988 Pan Am 103 bombing. And forging closer ties with China is a courtship of conve nience. The United States is look ing to Beijing to help defuse the North Korean nuclear standoff and to open more of China’s mar kets to U.S. companies. It has also helped on the global war on terror. Given the turmoil in Iraq and the rest of the Middle East, the last thing the Bush administration needs is confrontation with Beijing or a flare up in North Korea. The administration also is under political attacks for not do ing enough to narrow America’s soaring trade deficit with China. “This really is an amazing re lationship. It’s gone from almost nothing to one of the most signifi cant bilateral relationships any place in the world today,” Vice President Dick Cheney said on a recent trip to China. China, now America’s third largest trading partner, agreed during high-level talks in Washington last week to a series of agreements to open more mar kets to U.S. goods and to crack down on piracy of copyrighted CDs, movies and computer soft ware. Commerce Secretary Don Evans called it “a landmark day.” Meanwhile, China’s leaders ap parently went along with a direct appeal by Cheney to exert more pressure on North Korean leader Kim Jong n to dismantle his nu clear program. Visiting Beijing last week just days after Cheney, Kim told Chinese officials he is committed to continuing six-nation talks and ending the nuclear dispute through dialogue, China’s official Xinhua News Agency reported. China even broadcast a Cheney speech in Shanghai without cen sorship — although later edited out the vice president’s remarks on Taiwan and human rights in a government-posted transcript. Washington and Beijing share a strategic interest in a nuclear-free Korean peninsula and in keeping oil shipping lanes open in the Persian Gulf. China, the world’s fastest-growing economy, is be coming one of its thirstiest oil im porters. “There’s no doubt that the United States is isolated from the rest of the world and that China is a country that superficially seems to have an agenda in foreign poli cy that dovetails with ours,” said Alan Tonelson, a research fellow at the U.S. Business & Industrial Council in Washington, a business trade group. However, Tonelson cautions: “While the Bush administration and China can clearly work to gether, I think the Bush folks need to be more mindful of the fact that the Chinese bottom line is not the same as the U.S. bottom line.” The breakneck integration of China into the world economy continues to hurt many American manufacturers and cost U.S. jobs, and China’s military buildup looms as an ever-present nation al security concern, Tonelson said. PHOTO SPECIAL TO THE GAMECOCK President George W. Bush speaks at a news conference. | Two Thumbs Up Award • Fall 2003 & Spring 2004 to faculty/staff nominated by students for their effort in making a difference ■ Three Year Nominees: . 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