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The article focuses on issues concerning the United States' decision to sell 150 F-16 fighter aircraft to Taiwan. In an election year, approval for the sale of expensive weapons to Taiwan has a lot to do with U.S. President George Bush's need to win votes at home. But, though some of his reasons may be suspect, Bush is right to show China a warning flag. China used to be able to present itself to the West as the cuddlier sort of communist. But with the only competition now coming from the Cubas, Vietnams and North Koreas, that time is gone. For most of the 1980s China was militarily modest, economically adventurous and engagingly open to the outside world.

Explores how China has skillfully worked its way back from diplomatic isolation in recent months and considers the challenges the country faces in light of a changed world. Impact of the Tiananmen Square events; Effects of shrinking Soviet power on China; US President George Bush's New World Order; Chinese reaction to the new Soviet-American relationship.

The article discusses popular sentiments that recall the former U.S. President George H. W. Bush favorably, arguing that although Bush's reputation may be positive, he would not be elected for office in 2014. Topics include populism, Bush's foreign policies and taxation policies, and the Republican political party.

This article discusses the myriad differences between United States President-elect Bill Clinton and British Prime Minister John Major. It is said that President-elect Clinton bears no grudge against Prime Minister Major for wanting former U.S. President George Bush to stay president. Of course, they say, the Prime Minister had no hand in sending Tory party planners across the water to advise Bush on how to do an electoral Major. British damage-limitation experts said that the President-elect is sincere when he says he has no time to see the British Prime Minister in the U.S. at the end of the week. And of course the special relationship is still, well, special enough-though these days most Foreign Office mandarins shrink from uttering that tiredest of diplomatic cliches.