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...worry about the Chinese public. Anger at the U.S. could easily twist into fury at him for failing to defend the motherland. "If Mao Zedong were the leader today, he would have shot down the American plane," says Li Hua, a physics student from Shanghai, who counts KFC as her favorite takeout. "But our leaders now don't have the guts to get in a fight." At first this incident looked like a reprise of the Belgrade embassy bombing. Anyone watching the official newscasts was led to believe that the U.S. plane had intentionally caused the collision. Variations on KILL...
...Perhaps that's not surprising. This is the first generation in People's Republic history not to have suffered through the trauma of war. "If Mao Zedong were the leader today, he would have shot down the American plane," says Li Hua, a physics student from Shanghai, who counts KFC as her favorite take-out. "But our leaders now don't have the guts to get in a fight...
...Tricon's Thailand, Singapore and Indonesia units, is the loyal soldier assigned the job of vanquishing Heinecke. The only painting in Chew's Sukhumvit Road office is a portrait of the ranking officer of the fast-food business, Colonel Sanders. Behind Chew's desk, left over from a KFC-Star Wars promotion, looms a 6-ft. tall statue of Darth Vader wielding his laser. Chew, a former lieutenant in the Singapore army, talks about being a "general'' in this conflict. Still, he could be busted down to buck private if he loses to a no-name pizza company. "My neck...
...worry about the Chinese public. Anger at the U.S. could easily twist into fury at him for failing to defend the motherland. "If Mao Zedong were the leader today, he would have shot down the American plane," says Li Hua, a physics student from Shanghai, who counts KFC as her favorite takeout. "But our leaders now don't have the guts to get in a fight." At first this incident looked like a reprise of the Belgrade embassy bombing. Anyone watching the official newscasts was led to believe that the U.S. plane had intentionally caused the collision. Variations on KILL...
...fast food franchises have become something of a traditional target for crowds protesting everything from the bombing of Serbia or the entry of U.S. corporations into India's catering market to globalization in general. U.S. embassies may be impregnable, but the wide windows of McDonald's and KFC are a tempting forest of windmills for Nike-clad Quixotes everywhere in the world who want to tilt at symbols of American influence...