Expert on U.S. appointed as China's new foreign minister

Tuesday, March 18, 2003

BEIJING -- He studied hard to become an expert in the American way -- hunting pheasant in South Dakota, doing the Sunday morning talk shows, learning to be equally comfortable raising a glass to the United States and denouncing it.

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