Michael Sata, president of Zambia and a long-standing China critic when in opposition until 2011, changed his tune once in office.
Bolton may prove to be as skilled a manager as these more long-standing China experts: the trouble is, there is no guarantee he will stick around long enough to get even a five-year record.
Peter Foster of the Daily Telegraph observed that "long-standing China commentators have been astonished at the speed at which Beijing has moved to seize the news agenda on this event," and attributed it to his belief that "China doesn't have a great deal to hide".
In the 1980's, he said, the Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping, accused anti-China forces "in a certain nation" of using an innocuous position paper that was meant to be a "comprehensive and detailed exposition of China's long standing policy" to their political advantage.
In a separate interview, with the Wall Street Journal, Trump said that the long-standing "One China" policy — initiated by President Nixon in 1972 and a cornerstone of U.S. policy ever since — is no longer guaranteed.
Trump may oppose the perilous movement toward war with Russia, but his provocation of China and hints that he may abandon the US's long-standing "one-China" policy pose serious dangers.
He received a long standing ovation.
Settlement there is of long standing.
Wives of long standing shuddered in empathy.
They're all friends of long standing.
Some routes are of long standing.
