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...Russians did not let the matter drop. Later, during the leaders' joint press conference, one of the questioners Putin called on asked Bush about the very same firings, a coincidence the White House assumed had been orchestrated. The odd episode reinforced the Administration's view that Putin's impressions of America are often based on urban myths fed to him by ill-informed aides. (At a past summit, according to Administration aides, Putin asked Bush whether it was true that chicken producers split their production into plants that serve the U.S. and lower-quality ones that process substandard chicken...
...Japan is lending the U.S. support on that potential battle line. Two weeks ago, Washington and Tokyo issued a joint communiqu? that specifically cites peace in the Taiwan Strait as a common objective of the two allies. That came just weeks before China's National People's Congress is expected to enact an anti-secession law that may require the mainland to declare war if Taiwan declares independence, and days before U.S. President George W. Bush went to Europe and tried to dissuade the E.U. from lifting its 16-year embargo on selling arms to China?arms that would...
...China as seirei keinetsu?"politically cold, economically hot." Bilateral trade reached $56.8 billion last year, the highest since 2000, but Tokyo is alarmed at China's growing military might. (In its most recent national defense outline, Japan said "attention must be paid" to China's increasing military capabilities.) The joint declaration with the U.S. over Taiwan, says Terumasa Nakanishi, professor of international politics at Kyoto University, "is a warning to Beijing ... that military action toward Taiwan is the one line China cannot cross. Japan cannot back down." Beijing's reaction to the communiqu? was appropriately icy: it considers Taiwan...
...withhold their contributions to the Senior Gift, a traditional donation to the Harvard College Fund given by the graduating Senior Class, until Harvard agrees to divest from PetroChina. PetroChina’s parent company, an oil company almost wholly owned by the Chinese government, is participating in a joint venture with the Sudanese government, providing Sudan with cash spent on a brutal war being waged against its own people in the southern region of Darfur. While we strongly support calls for Harvard’s divestment from PetroChina, we cannot support Mahan and Terry’s boycott...
...Hyun's government in a bind. Seoul is deeply committed to its policy of economic engagement with Pyongyang. Since October 2002, it has transferred at least $900 million in cash, products and services to the North, according to government figures and Hyundai Asan, a company involved in joint North-South industrial projects. This year's transfers?if a planned donation of 500,000 tons of fertilizer goes ahead?will likely be at least $350 million. The new Kaesong industrial park, just north of the Demilitarized Zone, is the most visible symbol of economic cooperation between the two countries. In late...