Wednesday January 12, 9:58 am ET
By Alexa Olesen, Associated Press Writer
BEIJING (AP) — China’s commerce minister told outgoing Secretary of
Commerce Donald Evans on Wednesday …”Judging from the view of friends
and judging from the achievements of your work, I should say that 70
percent of what you have done has been pretty good,” … A visibly
uncomfortable Evans responded with surprise.”Oh, hey, that’s almost
flunking,” he said. “That’s almost failure.” Later, Evans told The
Associated Press that [Commerce Minister Bo Xilai] meant the comment as
praise…
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