Consistent China policy eludes US

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For US President George W. Bush's administration, and even for many members of Congress, China has become almost too big to bash.
A day after one of China's state-controlled oil companies made an unsolicited US$18.5 billion bid for Unocal, a Californian oil and gas company with extensive fields in Asia, US administration officials and many lawmakers were almost tongue-tied about the implications.

US Treasury Secretary John Snow, asked whether he would lead a national security review of the deal, hesitantly told members of the Senate Finance Committee last Thursday that the question was "hypothetical" because the transaction has yet to happen.

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