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...Somehow, though, the Chief Secretary was able to keep most of his appointments?meetings that bordered on the surreal for being so routine. Through a capital girding itself for battle, he made his way to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, where he tried to convince American businessmen that the future of Hong Kong's economy was bright. The next afternoon, he met U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell, the only foreign leader to do so in the days immediately following the attacks. They discussed Hong Kong politics as warplanes circled overhead. "It might seem strange," says an aide...
...technocrats, economists and businessmen throughout Asia, the work ahead will only get rougher in the wake of Sept. 11?and be anything but normal. That was the day that CNBC buzzwords like "defensive positions" and "collateral damage" took on frightening new meanings. Economists became psychologists: Will American consumers fall victim to a collective post-traumatic stress disorder, too stunned to buy exports from Asia? Financial analysts put aside their valuation models to study troop movements, diplomatic machinations and the mind-set of Islamic terrorists. Phenomena like China's entry into the World Trade Organization are still of importance...
...country awash in illegal weapons, violence is inevitably part of the picture. And it isn't restricted to the illiterate and the destitute, those most susceptible to the pull of extremism. Even the sons of some wealthy businessmen are growing beards and joining the jihad against India over the disputed territory of Kashmir, often to the dismay of their secular-leaning families. Others sign up for local wars: more than 100 Pakistanis have been killed in sectarian attacks since the beginning of this year. In recent months, minority Shia professionals, especially doctors, have been targeted for assassination. Doctors are among...
...hostility towards the United States. Even more complex is the fact that such hostility is seldom official government policy, but rather the sentiment on the streets to which these not-exactly-democratic governments are forced to respond. For example, Bin Laden has reportedly continued to raise funds from wealthy businessmen in the Arab world despite being identified as Public Enemy No. 1 in the U.S. And, of course, the personal profiles of some of the hijackers involved in the September 11 attacks suggests that it is not only impoverished and impressionable youths from these countries who are joining Bin Laden...
...time TV before this week, before 300 of his fellow firefighters died saving others and his boots melted on his feet after digging 24 hours at a stretch in ruins that could still crush him? I don't remember any. Instead, we are served a steady diet of glamorized businessmen. Welch is hailed as an icon of our time for driving up the stock price of General Electric...