The China leg of Clinton’s Asia tour was salvaged – so much so that, at the end of her stay in Beijing, she indulged in the type of diplomatic hyperbole that few would have expected three days earlier: “Our countries are thoroughly, inescapably interdependent,” she said, adding that “a thriving China is good for America…” That may or may not be true; but both countries seem to have reached the conclusion that no human-rights dispute is worth sabotaging the entire bilateral relationship.
这挽救了克林顿亚洲之行的中国站行程，以至于在离开北京前，她发表了三天前还没有人能够想到的夸张的外交声明：“美中两国完完全全、无可避免的互相依存，”她还说“繁荣的中国符合美国的利益…”这或许对或许不对；但两国似乎都已下定决心为人权争议破坏整个双边关系不太值得。