"The Administration thought after the Clinton trip that it had come to some modus vivendi with China," said Jonathan B. Pollack, a defense strategist at the Rand Corporation who recently visited China. "But it doesn't run very deep, there's a clear that the underpinnings are very , and there's a very clear potential for a real reversal in the relationship." The most immediate for the Administration is how to deal with the regression in China's human rights policies in the last two months. Administration officials argue that they never expected continued improvement in human rights after Clinton left China in July and that there is "no quick fix," as Harold Koh, the Assistant Secretary of State for human rights, said recently. But the long prison of 11 to 13 years imposed on three democracy in December took officials here by surprise. "Obviously we were are unhappy about the and have said so publicly, and from the President on down privately," said Samuel R. Berger, the President's national security adviser. , the clearest path for the Administration to register its objection to such a crackdown is to a resolution condemning China at the annual meeting of the United Nations Human Rights Commission in Geneva.
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