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Aramex made its name in part by going where others feared to tread, getting mail across Beirut's green line during the Lebanese civil war and using donkeys to get parcels past Israeli checkpoints in the West Bank. Ghandour got his break when FedEx and later Airborne Express made Aramex...
Re "Get Ahead, Learn Mandarin" [June 26]: I wish good luck to anyone who is learning Mandarin. Even after several years spent mastering the language, you will be able to communicate well with only people from Beijing. Linguistically, China is complicated and diverse, like Europe. Each province has a major...
Chinese foreign policymaking is an opaque, often glacial process. Senior leaders rarely give interviews, and the twice-weekly press conferences held by the foreign ministry seldom produce any insight into Beijing's thinking. Last week's briefings were no exception, with a ministry representative doggedly fending off questions about the...
But beneath the surface calm, diplomats and analysts said the Chinese leaders were frustrated, even angry, that Pyongyang defied their wishes. "I think the Chinese are as baffled as we are" by North Korea's actions, U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Christopher Hill said in Beijing last week. Hill was...
Beijing has hundreds of missiles pointed at Taiwan. Do you trust China's leaders? No. If they don't do something about the missiles, we won't negotiate. [But] during the two trips [former KMT chairman] Lien Chan made to China, what was missing was actually more important than what...