{"id":12,"date":"2005-01-21T14:36:34","date_gmt":"2005-01-21T18:36:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/globalfund\/2005\/01\/21\/us-commerce-secretary-donald-evans"},"modified":"2005-01-21T14:36:34","modified_gmt":"2005-01-21T18:36:34","slug":"us-commerce-secretary-donald-evans-gets-chilly-reception-in-beijing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/globalfund\/2005\/01\/21\/us-commerce-secretary-donald-evans-gets-chilly-reception-in-beijing\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Commerce Secretary Donald Evans Gets Chilly Reception in Beijing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a17'><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Wednesday January 12, 9:58 am ET<br \/>\nBy Alexa Olesen, Associated Press Writer<\/p>\n<p>BEIJING (AP) &#8212; China&#8217;s commerce minister told outgoing Secretary of<br \/>\nCommerce Donald Evans on Wednesday &#8230;&#8221;Judging from the view of friends<br \/>\nand judging from the achievements of your work, I should say that 70<br \/>\npercent of what you have done has been pretty good,&#8221; &#8230; A visibly<br \/>\nuncomfortable Evans responded with surprise.&#8221;Oh, hey, that&#8217;s almost<br \/>\nflunking,&#8221; he said. &#8220;That&#8217;s almost failure.&#8221; Later, Evans told The<br \/>\nAssociated Press that [Commerce Minister Bo Xilai] meant the comment as<br \/>\npraise&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">See our editorial, <\/span><font size=\"2\"><a href=\"\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/globalfund\/stories\/storyReader$18\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/globalfund\/stories\/storyReader$18\">My Secretary Went to China and the Only Gift He Bought Me Was This Bloody T-Shirt<\/a><\/a>.<\/font><span style=\"font-style: italic;\"><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wednesday January 12, 9:58 am ET By Alexa Olesen, Associated Press Writer BEIJING (AP) &#8212; China&#8217;s commerce minister told outgoing Secretary of Commerce Donald Evans on Wednesday &#8230;&#8221;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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":359,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[780],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-globalization"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/globalfund\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/globalfund\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/globalfund\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/globalfund\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/359"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/globalfund\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/globalfund\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/globalfund\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/globalfund\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/globalfund\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}