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Does " it wants nothing to do with" mean "Obama administration is unwilling to be involved?"

 
 
Reply Wed 18 Apr, 2012 05:10 am

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WASHINGTON — On the evening of Feb. 6, a vice mayor of a major Chinese city who had a reputation as a crime fighter turned up at the American Consulate in Chengdu in an agitated state, telling a tale of corruption and murder that has ensnared the Obama administration in a scandal it wants nothing to do with.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/18/world/asia/details-emerge-on-us-decisions-in-china-scandal.html?_r=1&hp
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Reply Wed 18 Apr, 2012 06:39 am
@oristarA,
Yes; it = Obama administration.

The administration (officially) chooses not to get involved. (But you can bet it is listening)

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Reply Wed 18 Apr, 2012 06:55 am
@PUNKEY,

I'm pretty sure a vice mayor is not the same as a vice-mayor.
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