But after a health scare over another designer drug, China White, which was synthesized as a legal substitute for heroin, the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency banned MDMA in 1985.
Under the two of them, the Red Lobster restaurants got a facelift, with new music systems, and colorful plates to replace stark white china.
Despite this, Bush administration officials, known more as dogged salesmen of ideological policies than as pragmatists, have been nuanced in their relationship with the Red Kingdom, resisting the no-doubt-powerful political urge to demonise China as the White House struggles with other woes.
The first sign of a U.S.-China thaw was when the White House took a neutral stance on China's bid to host the Games.
Now, worryingly, something similar may threaten Haier, China's leading white-goods maker, which recently failed with a bid for Maytag, an American rival.
China's increasingly prickly relations with Australia were intensified in May when Mr Rudd unveiled a defence white paper suggesting that China was now Australia's biggest strategic threat.
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China Mobile (formerly China Telecom), another White holding, didn't do as well as its Chinese peers but outperformed most global telecom shares.
Guangdong Kelon, China's largest private white-goods maker, was the first private company to list in Hong Kong, with a share issue in 1996.
Before deregulation in 1978, airlines competed almost entirely on service, thick steaks, white napkins, porcelain china.
The White House has threatened China and other countries with trade and diplomatic action over corporate espionage cases.
The white paper adds no new conditions to existing ones for the possible use of force against Taiwan, and much of the white paper concentrates on China's military backwardness.
Yet here was the Democratic fund raiser agitating for three top executives from the world's biggest foreign investor in China to be invited to a White House coffee for prospective donors.
Its 400-year-old synagogue is decorated with blue-and-white willow pattern tiles from China.
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Unfortunately, it would appear that its interest in currying favor with China and its money-men like White House coffee-clatcher Wang Jun did, as well.
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Over the past year, both the White House and voices inside China have spoken out in favor of an escalation in value of the RMB.
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He said the G20 summit had not seen any "substantial" deals but had seen some important "positive symbolic things" - such as Brazil, China and India joining "rich, white countries" around the table.
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Company name refers to high-quality white porcelain that was exported from China to the West in the 18th century.
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Members of Congress have increasingly pressured the White House to get tougher with China, and doing so has bipartisan appeal.
In its defence white paper released on Tuesday, China accused the US of destabilising the region by strengthening its military alliances.
After White House stonewalling on two other China-related investigations (the fund raising and the technology transfers), Republicans will assume the worst about the Lee case.
The flagship center, located on Maoming Road in Shanghai, China, has seven theme rooms: Snow White, Lion King, Cars, Peter Pan, Tinker Bell, Winnie The Pooh and Toy Story.
When Chung asked for a letter of introduction from the White House for a trip to China, National Security Council officials warned that Chung was a "hustler" whose activities were "very troubling" for U.S. diplomacy.
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Unhappy about the White House trade deal to admit China to the WTO--an agreement that labor is now better armed to fight in Congress--the unions had pressed Clinton to push their case on labor rules in Seattle.
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Politicians such as Jaap Marais ( Obituary, August 19th) feared that even talk about reform would undermine white rule, just as in China today the Communist leaders fiercely refuse to acknowledge the possibility of any alternative form of government.
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