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...would not pursue de jure independence ... We would resume negotiations on the basis of the 1992 consensus [forged during talks in Hong Kong]?in short, "one China, different interpretations." We would facilitate economic exchanges leading eventually to a common market. We would facilitate cultural and educational exchanges, like letting mainland students attend universities in Taiwan, because we have a surplus capacity and they are very short of that ... If the two sides get together, the chance of war will be minimized...
...effectively moved Taipei to where Jakarta is. Can you think of anything more stupid than that? We're very strong in R&D, design, incubation and marketing, but it's too expensive to manufacture in Taiwan anymore, so there should be a division of labor between Taiwan and the mainland...
...plutonium for six to eight nuclear weapons, but the recent failures show he still lacks a rocket capable of reaching the U.S. for now Worst case Experts fear that North Korea is trying to modify a Taepo Dong-2 missile to carry a lighter warhead as far as the mainland U.S., but that capability is thought to be years away The missile that crashed in two minutes is believed to be a three-stage rocket, though its exact configuration remains unclear. North Korea has several variations with longer potential ranges [This article contains a table. Please see hardcopy...
...Several Chinese hotel companies, notably the Jinjiang Group, are chasing after the same market, intensifying the sense of urgency. "It's amazing how fast things move in China," says Brian Deeson, head of China operations for the French lodging group Accor, which has four Ibis Hotels on the mainland and plans to have 50 of them in operation by the end of 2008. "You have to keep moving very fast to keep your advantage...
...hazy rose-colored summer-dawn breaking over the blue-white ice-floes crowding its waters revealed a curious tableau: framed by the dark distant, snow-crowned headlands to the east and west and, at a lower elevation, the two, flat- and sheer-sided Diomede Islands tucked between those mainland heights, rose a forest of masts, sails, and rigging. Closer inspection revealed a listing, three-masted whaleship. Moored to it by a web of radiating ropes bobbed five smaller vessels, the 35-foot whaleboats that, on better days, the whaleship dispatched to harpoon the bowhead whales that brought white...