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Not until last July, that is, when Taipei and Beijing agreed to start direct flights between Taiwan and China and open up tourism on the island to 3,000 Chinese visitors every day. The direct flights were a relief to the four million Taiwanese who travel to China every year...
For the past 19 years on June 4, large crowds have gathered for candlelight vigils at Hong Kong's Victoria Park to remember the hundreds who died that day in Beijing's Tiananmen Square. This year, which brings the loaded 20th anniversary of the student political movement that began on...
So it is not surprising, then, that after 12 prominent members of the Chinese Communist Party put together a book of essays to commemorate the legacy of the reform-minded Chinese leader Hu Yaobang - whose death of a heart attack 20 years ago this week triggered the student movement in...
That China has already banned the book should come as a surprise to no one. Despite being written by party insiders, some of the essays are critical of Beijing's current policies and of the late Chinese leader, Deng Xiaoping, still greatly admired on the mainland for ushering in the...
But the real opposition appears to have less to do with the environment and more to do with Vietnam's fear of its neighbor on the country's northern border. Nationalist groups accuse Hanoi of caving in to pressure from commodities-hungry China by allowing the mining project to go...