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...visit to the U.S. and talks with President Reagan this week, Zhao indicated a disarming willingness to help eliminate the obstacles that have stood in the way of closer relations between the two countries. Among the major difficulties: Washington's granting of political asylum to Chinese Tennis Player Hu Na; Peking's curtailment of cultural exchanges with the U.S.; a Chinese boycott of American agricultural products; and, most troublesome of all, U.S. arms sales to Taiwan...
...Western influence has apparently gone far beyond skin flicks and designer fashions, and last week the drive turned serious. Hu Jiwei, director of People's Daily, was forced to resign, and Wang Ruoshui, one of the paper's three deputy editors in chief, was dismissed. Their apparent crime: printing a scholarly article eight months ago that dared to suggest that "alienation," a term reserved by Karl Marx for decadent capitalism, might actually be applicable to Chinese socialism as well...
...biological information about wolves, the film re-creates most of the book's incidents with a minimum of fictional embellishment while sustaining a dramatic momentum of its own. Most important, it is in every sense true to the spirit of Mowat's writing, which mixed self-deprecating hu mor, outrage over man's misunderstanding and misuse of the wilds, and a sense of selfdiscovery...
...chestnut dating back to securities issued by the imperial Chinese government in 1911. Last year a U.S. district court in Alabama issued a default judgment against China to the tune of $41 million owed on the bonds. When the U.S. granted political asylum to the young Chinese tennis star Hu Na in April, the Chinese bristled and cut back on a whole range of cultural exchange agreements...
Could terror reign once more? No, said Hu ? and he was firm. A modern country needs intellectuals, scientists. This was Deng's view too. How could modernization proceed without thinking people? I persisted: Could it happen again? No, he answered. Not because of the new constitution. Not because of the transfer of power. No ? because someone who puts his finger on a hot stove gets burned and will not put his finger there again. The terror, Hu assured me, could not return because the people now would not accept...