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...history, have never been at ease with each other. Even more potentially worrisome is China's determination to bring Taiwan back into the fold. The island to which defeated Nationalist forces retreated at the end of the civil war in 1949 is now a thriving, culturally rich democracy--the freest society that Chinese people have known in their long history. But to Beijing, Taiwan's status is a constant memory of the years of foreign humiliation. The National People's Congress, China's docile parliament, recently passed a resolution authorizing military intervention if Taiwan declares formal independence...
...months, Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone appeared on Japanese national television last week to address his country's most pressing issue: a $44 billion trade surplus that is stirring increasing resentment around the globe. Announcing a package of measures designed to lower trade barriers, Nakasone pledged to make Japan the freest market in the world. Said he: "I personally will hold myself responsible that enough will be done to satisfy international complaints that Japan is unfair in the trade area. We have taken very bold steps. We have done our best...
...Wang claims to be the freest-minded author in China but admits that there are many restrictions on what Chinese authors can write about. "I can't mention Mao, the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) or Muslims." He shakes his head when asked whether Mo Yan and Li Rui, two mainland authors favored by American and Swedish sinologists, are as free as he is. "No," he says. "They both love the peasants so much that they start to beautify them. Are Chinese peasants really that nice? Mo Yan and Li Rui are both nostalgic about the poor days of China...
...Thomas Kwok, vice chairman of Sun Hung Kai Properties, the city's second-largest developer, praised the policy as "market driven" and "in keeping with Hong Kong's status as the world's freest economy." But will this course correction put a floor under falling prices? Most analysts say no, because reducing supply doesn't address all that ails the market. Even those who view the new policy as reasonable say its effect will be muted because the local economy is struggling and buyers are scarce. "I expect there will be a positive impact in terms of the market...
...Last week was a notably bad one for Thailand's press, one of the freest in Asia?and it looks like more trouble is on the way. The Nation Group came in for the hardest slam: the transmission of a live interview with a government critic on the company's radio program was abruptly cut off. The Defense Ministry, which owns the radio station, offered a series of unconvincing explanations; taking heed, the Nation Group said it was ending political coverage on its 24-hour cable news channel. The most recent issue of Britain's the Economist was banned because...