Word: asia
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...biggest investors in mainland China and Southeast Asia, Taiwan should go on to influence the world using its economic might instead of focusing only on a U.N. seat. By assisting the economic development in these countries, Taiwan would gradually gain the support it seeks and responses from the mainland would not be too angry when it carefully takes a little step forward in the pursuit of nationalism. Mainland China, on the other hand, should also put the emphasis on domestic growth, bearing in mind that antagonism does little good. After all, if in the future China replaces...
...answer the central question posed to all negotiators, which is, could I have gotten more for less?" Gallucci said. "What I do know is that the program in North Korea could have caused fundamental change in the security landscape of northeast Asia, and now this program has been stopped in midstream...
...have been curtailed. Investment, aside from a boomlet in construction, is minimal. Shawa says Gaza needs an immediate infusion of $400 million for development, but only $120 million has been pledged by international donors, and a mere $12 million has been delivered. "People's souls are dying slowly," says Asia Abdul-Hadi, a Gaza journalist. "That's worse than being shot...
FIFTEEN YEARS AGO, WAUSAU, WISCONSIN, WAS HOMOGENEOUS AND COMPLACENT, among the whitest of cities in the country. No longer: beginning in the late 1970s, local churches began sponsoring displaced refugees from the wars in Southeast Asia, allowing them to settle in Wausau. As a result, the town (pop. 38,000) is now 15% Hmong, a people native to the mountains of Indochina who speak a language that until the 1950s had no written form...
Evan M. Schwartzfarb '96, an economics concentrator, said he dropped a course on East Asia because he found it very similar to another course he was taking...