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...referendum. Gibraltar's elected Chief Minister, Peter Caruana, boycotted the talks in protest at the decision to allow him to attend only as a British delegate, preventing him from vetoing any agreements. The ministers said their governments hope to reach an agreement by next summer. CHINA Falun Gong Protest Authorities detained and then deported 35 Western supporters of the banned Falun Gong movement after they staged one of the biggest demonstrations by foreigners on Beijing's Tiananmen Square. The protesters, on tourist visas from 10 European countries and the U.S., held a sit-in and unfurled banners before being carted...
...sect?which calls itself "the con-gregation"?operates deep underground. A two-year police campaign against it and other so-called "evil cults," such as Falun Gong, has put 2,000 of its followers in jail, say its spokesmen. Yet by targeting Christian believers it is flourishing?even though its belief that the female Jesus has updated the Bible for China violates core Christian tenets. The appeal seems to be the group's claim to have improved the Christian faith by putting the end of the world into a Chinese context and offering believers a path to immediate salvation. Official...
...Internet front. According to the New York Times, the CIA and Voice of America are working with an Emeryville, Calif., start-up called Safeweb to help Chinese Web surfers slip around government censorship. The Chinese block access to certain websites--such as those affiliated with the banned Falun Gong movement--but Safeweb's technology will help Internet users disguise their movements online...
...21st century dawns, China again is on a mission to open itself to the world. Tens of thousands of individuals are on the journey, people like Gong Jian, a 30-year-old exporter I met over tea in the elegant Portman Ritz-Carlton hotel in Shanghai. His title might sound prosaic: manager of footwear department No. 2 for Shanghai Lansheng Corp. But he exemplifies the cosmopolitan business Elite in China's coastal cities, leading the export charge that explains why Magic Chef refrigerators and seemingly everything else on sale at the 3,500 Wal-Mart department stores in the United...
...Zheng He parallel in today's China. But perhaps that's a positive sign. Instead of one imperial hero, thousands of ordinary people are doing their part to open the nation to the world. Back in Shanghai, the 2,000 workers on Lansheng's assembly line overseen by manager Gong are molding, stitching and boxing the thousands of shoes, which will then be loaded into the 12-m containers that accumulate at Shanghai's Waigaoqiao port. There, the big shipping lines - American President, Mitsui OSK, Mediterranean Shipping - stack them up and move them out to the world. "China's door...