On China, George W. Bush is not his father's son. Remember George H. W. Bush's tepid condemnation of China's crackdown in Tiananmen Square? President Bush's subsequent support of "Most Favored Nation" trading status for China? Today, on the eve of his visit to China, the son of Richard Nixon's envoy to China pointed to Taiwan, the free island coveted and claimed by the totalitarian mainland, as a model that China might aspire to become. "By embracing freedom at all levels," George W. Bush declared from South Korea, "Taiwan has delivered prosperity to its people and created a free and democratic Chinese society." He then challenged Red China to become more free, more open, more democratic. George W. Bush's challenge to the Chinese may be more displeasing to the ears of party bosses than the rhetoric of past U.S. presidents, but it's not like he didn't warn them that 43 was different from 41--and 42, 39, and 37 for that matter.