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...survived the Long March largely because Nationalist leader Chiang Kai-shek made a secret deal with Stalin: Chiang let the Red Army escape in exchange for the Russians' release of the Generalissimo's son and eventual successor, Chiang Ching-kuo, held hostage in Moscow. Mao, meanwhile, solidified his power by luring a rival Red Army faction to its destruction and burying the survivors alive...
...News trickled out last week that Ching Cheong, the Hong Kong-based chief China correspondent for Singapore's Straits Times, had been detained in late April on suspicion of espionage. Three days later, word spread that Lu Jianhua, a sociologist at the government-run Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS) in Beijing, and another CASS administrator, Chen Hui, had been rounded up around the same time for allegedly leaking state secrets?a charge that, like espionage, can carry the death penalty. But in an open letter to Hong Kong newspapers last Friday, Ching's wife, Mary Lau, claimed that...
...calls for democracy in 1989 came not just from students but from many mid-level Party bureaucrats as well. That claim is incendiary, for the Communist Party has always dismissed the pro-democracy movement as the work of a small number of "black hands" who manipulated the students. After Ching was detained, Lau said, security personnel searched his computer and discovered notes on the leadership discussions that Lu presumably had passed to him. Those internal communications could constitute the state secrets at issue. Lau, who last spoke to Ching on May 29, is not hopeful she will see her husband...
...this. In [inviting Lien to China], it creates internal problems." Professor Lee Si-kuen, a professor of political science at National Taiwan University (and a KMT member), calls Lien's trip "the wrong thing at the wrong time," adding "it will aggravate the divisions in Taiwan society." Chang Hui-ching, 34, a historian at Taiwan's National Palace Museum, says the political schism is already too wide. A former pro-independence activist, Chang no longer votes or discusses politics because, she says, "in Taiwan there is no middle ground. Everyone is talking but no one is listening. People's positions...
...magazine’s founders. Baldegg and founder and president Camilla A. Hdry ’04-’05 rely on their friends for an abundance of sultry sources. “People love to model,” Hdry says. Case in point: Kevin C.L. Ching ’06, who appears on the cover, says he just wanted to do something fun with his blockmates...