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...against the death penalty [Feb. 21], she did not express sorrow or sympathy for the innocent victims of crime and their grieving relatives. She talked about letters from prisoners' mothers as being some of the saddest but didn't mention the victims' mothers. Leonid Oleinik Wanamassa, New Jersey, U.S. Kyoto's Global Scope I was amazed to read your article about the implementation of the Kyoto accord on climate change [Feb. 21], which went into effect in much of the world on Feb. 16. Reduction of greenhouse gases is a global issue, yet you focused on what Europe is doing...
...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 a renegade province and reunification (at some future time) is carved-in-marble national policy. Chinese Foreign...
...remains tight. Lee Teng-hui, the first native Taiwanese to become president, speaks far better Japanese than he does Mandarin, and has frequently been criticized by political adversaries for "thinking like a Japanese." A few weeks ago, over Beijing's vociferous objections, Japan allowed Lee a private visit to Kyoto, Nagoya and Kanazawa; likewise, President Chen's wife, Wu Shu-jen, may be granted a tourist visa to visit Japan. It's inconceivable that Koizumi and Chen could meet or even officially communicate: Tokyo doesn't recognize Taiwan's existence as a nation. But at least it no longer ignores...
...rift between the U.S. and Europe is evident on issues as diverse as the Kyoto treaty and the treatment of prisoners at Guantanamo. But it's likely to be felt most acutely in the strategic realm, in which the Europeans plainly no longer see themselves as hitched to the U.S. on matters of global conflict and security. The Europeans will make their own policy on Iraq, building their own relationships with its new government independently of the U.S. And presumably, so will others - as power shifts toward a government dominated by groups historically closer to Iran than they...
...still learning about the science of climate change." SCOTT MCCLELLAN, White House spokesman, on the Bush Administration's refusal to endorse the Kyoto Protocol to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, which went into effect last week...