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...relationship. The disputes between us are a fraction of the total, and have to be seen in perspective. You've just negotiated a deal with China limiting exports to the E.U. until 2008. Won't there always be the risk that some industrial sector will become vulnerable to cheap foreign imports? I've made it clear that this is a transitional arrangement to deal with the economic shock of unwinding protection in the textiles trade. I believe that if you treat China as an enemy, then it is likely to become one. China is perfectly entitled to its liberalization...
...always been grateful. She had a choice of leading men ... and she chose me. I was cheap...
...democracy of our type." Quite. The so-called "peaceful rise of China" is a global brand; it has been marketed as such to Western consumers, who don't think long about China's prisons, its taste for capital punishment or its scant regard for workers' rights. Just keep the cheap stuff coming! Like most countries, China has a spy network. Big deal. Nevertheless, it's good for the Australian public occasionally to see beyond the twaddle of "special friendships" and to enter, for a moment, the less congenial world inhabited by Chinese dissidents - and even by ordinary Chinese migrants. Australia...
...Indeed, some coastal towns have been whaling for centuries. Yet few Japanese ate whale prior to the lean postwar years, before General Douglas MacArthur encouraged it as a cheap, abundant source of protein. Japan took to it with gusto, and that meant boom times for fishing ports like Ayukawa, where boats brought back as many as 600 whales a year. "In so many ways?food, culture, tourism?everything was based on whaling," says 67-year-old Yusa, whose family has been in whaling for two generations. That prosperity died when commercial whaling was banned by the IWC in 1986. Japan...
...lack of democratic legitimacy of nonelected E.U. bodies, some of which have more authority than they merit. Françoise Blin Vers sur Selle, France The critical issues at stake during the debate on the E.U. constitution included increased unemployment, the loss of social advantages, offshore industries, cheap imports from countries with low labor costs and increased immigration. It was rare, however, that one heard of the progress that has been made since the movement toward the unification of Europe began. Jobs have been created and market potential of E.U. countries improved. Non-European companies have established production facilities...