You must think Bush is the stupidest person on the planet.
That makes no sense. I can't figure out how you got to that comment from FairOpinion's post.
For the record, I agree with FairOpinion. It is diplomacy and China matters alot in this case.
If China says, "Oh, we think we're going to buy some south American debt this time around..." things could get very ugly very quickly.
If China could do that, or more likely had the interest in doing it, it would not have been a problem in the first place.
Thinking the only person who can close the barn door is the person who let it be opened, or actually opened it, in the first place makes no sense.