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...under the carpet to tackle the country's endemic corruption, epidemic pollution, emaciated health care, shredded social services, entrenched industrial overcapacity and swiftly aging population, to name a few. They have little remaining bandwidth, and no experience or desire to be the visionary and magnanimous world leaders who can look beyond China's own often desperate needs that the world wants them...
...Chinese calligraphy I always like to look at those beautiful lines and their energy. Kinetic movement is always cursive and circular. When you're using the brush, it's actually an endless movement of circles...
...Madam Chancellor, You Look Marvelous! I was jarred by some of the descriptions of the German Chancellor in "Merkel's Moment" [Jan. 11]. While the article does a nice job of summing up Angela Merkel's rise through the sexist ranks of German politics, it contradicts itself by using such outdated gender stereotypes as diminutive, frail and kittenish to describe the first female Chancellor of Germany. Though subtle, this sort of language is damaging. One step forward, three steps back. And to think, the writer is a woman. Kate Karczewski Chicago...
...River, Big Sea: 1949 This is Lung Ying-tai's new book about the year the Nationalists retreated to Taiwan. There's no winner in the war; everybody fails. Unearthed historical facts force me to look at new angles and realign myself...
...around the world. We invade countries to spread our form of government, then we fail to comprehend their ancient tribal systems, their religious systems and their views about marriage and family structure. The rise of terrorist activity over the past decade should at last lead us to look more carefully at ourselves, not the people chewing khat in Yemen...