Heading off a ‘Coal War’ with China – Derrick Z. Jackson

From The Boston Globe:

IN 1972, while toasting Premier Zhou En-Lai during the landmark visit to China, President Nixon asked, “What legacy shall we leave our children? Are they destined to die for the hatreds which have plagued the old world, or are they destined to live because we had the vision to build a new world?”Article Tools

Despite a disgraced presidency, Nixon was credited with melting that aspect of the Cold War.Today, China and the United States have the Coal War. President Bush could salvage a portion of his legacy by ending it. [Full Text]

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