[Eva]

the Chinese generally have been skeptical of Bush, whom they regard as less friendly toward their country than was President Bill Clinton.

That's because the Chinese regarded Bill Clinton as weak. They realized that Clinton's foreign policy was still colored by his objections to the US involvement in Viet Nam and that Clinton was afraid to assert the full power of the United States outside of our own borders. In other words, Clinton was a coward.

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was ?