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...China: Feeling the Heat •South Korea: Use Carrots, Not Sticks •Japan: Abductions Cloud the Issue •Russia: Trying to Look Relevant...
...called "Their Cheatin' Heart." Subscribers to this version like to point out that among the reasons for the Clinton Administration's dragging its heels on delivering on the benefits promised to Pyongyang in 1994 was the fact that North Korea had lobbed medium-range missiles into the Sea of Japan 1998 - not exactly a confidence-building measure for the other parties to the 1994 deal. When the Bush Administration came up with what it claims was solid intelligence about a secret uranium-enrichment program in late 2002, the jig was up, and many in Washington decided there...
...Sony bet on a chip called the Cell and a disc format called Blu-ray. They're probably awesome, but how would anybody know? The PS3 is hideously expensive--it goes for up to $600--and Sony manufactured only a piddling few hundred thousand for the U.S., fewer for Japan. Plus it's hard to write games for; the launch titles were lame. You know you're in trouble when you get beat by something called...
...capital markets, London?on some measures, even Hong Kong?now rivals New York as a business mecca. And perhaps above all, there is the steady shift of economic power from the Atlantic world, dominated by the U.S., to Asia, where it must share the stage with China, India, and Japan...
...China: Feeling the Heat •South Korea: Use Carrots, Not Sticks •Japan: Abductions Cloud the Issue •Russia: Trying to Look Relevant...