"A great moment in diplomatic timing"

Norman Spector's acid comment on this Globe and Mail story:

The government of Prime Minister Stephen Harper has begun using what experts are calling "subtle but meaningful" shifts in diplomatic language in an effort to improve relations with China - changes that have drawn approval from Beijing...

The whole tone of the story is one of implicit approval. Rather odd in view of what's been happening in Tibet (I suspect the government itself is simply the victim of bad timing), but the Globe has been kow-towing to the Chinese for some time--see here, here and here ("Update").

Posted by markc at March 19, 2008 07:54 AM