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...plane. President Bush used polite diplomatic language Monday despite his obvious frustration with China's slow response to U.S. requests, and the Navy ordered three of its destroyers to leave the region of Sunday's air crash, thus avoiding sending a signal that Beijing might interpret as hostile intent. Beijing's intentions are more difficult to gauge, given the fact that the Chinese leadership is far from monolithic. A fierce power struggle has raged for years between reformist modernizers and more hard-line hawks who fear that modernization is bringing dangerous social instability, the latter being inclined to view...
...burgeoning like a garden of perennials, one of the brightest blossoms was China. It had the numbers, of course?more than a billion potentially wired Chinese?and a seemingly inexhaustible army of plugged-in, ambitious techies. With oodles of talent (and a xenophobic government that until recently was intent on keeping out foreign players) it seemed certain that China's Internet would be controlled by locals, not outsiders. Well, another bit of New Economy conventional wisdom may be unraveling. China's homegrown portals, the sites Web-crawlers use as their home pages, are slowly bleeding to death. Years from becoming...
...time news of the harrowing collision became public, a similar drill was being repeated in Washington and Beijing. Some on the front lines of the U.S.-China relationship were trying to save it, while others in the back seemed intent on blowing it up. Neither country was able to manage a clear response for days. In both, there are hard-liners, who seem to miss the days of cold war chest thumping, arrayed against accommodationists, who value, among other peace dividends, the $116 billion in annual trade. It was in the interest of both to let the other side know...
...line. He kneels down with a lighted candle next to him, his hands greasy and black as he works to reattach the chain to the gear sprockets. Around him a few teenage boys and girls are gathered, smoking cigarettes, some squatting on the balls of their feet, their intent faces peering down at scattered engine parts. The sound is the clatter of adolescent boys. Whether the vehicle in question is a '65 Mustang or a '99 Honda GSR motorcycle, the posturing of the too cool motorhead trying to goose a few more horsepower out of his engine while...
...Rather, there's something about the enormity of the tragedy, and its still inexhaustible mystery, that maintains a pull on artists and audiences. The first generation of Holocaust dramas were intent mainly on presenting the awful crimes to us. As years have gone on, the Holocaust has become a vessel for all sorts of more complex moral inquiries. "In the generation that immediately followed the war, the story was told in a rather less nuanced manner. There was black and white, good and evil," says Barry Edelstein, artistic director of CSC (which, along with the Klemperer play, also just staged...