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Sitting in the cafeteria of the National Taiwan University in Taipei last week, M.B.A. candidate Fan Po-yu is considering his future?150 km across the Taiwan Strait, in China. In classes, Fan, 23, is learning how to conduct business on the mainland. After-hours, more experienced friends tell him how to conduct himself once he gets there. (Don't talk politics; if someone asks about Taiwan's disputed status as a renegade Chinese province, shut up.) Regardless of the tricky politics, Fan's eyes are set firmly on China. "It's where the opportunities...
Nyerere's successor is regarded by Western diplomats in Dar es Salaam as a pragmatic politician who has helped maintain Zanzibar's tenuous link to the mainland at a time when Tanzania's pervasive economic problems have caused many Zanzibarians to question the value of that union. A Muslim, Mwinyi is expected to continue Nyerere's socialist economic policies, despite their mixed results. As for Nyerere, he will retain the important post of party chairman for at least the next two years. He plans to travel extensively throughout Tanzania in an effort to restore the peasants' somewhat diminished faith...
...years, Australia will be to China much as Hong Kong once was," says the government official, who has been dealing with China for two decades. "There will be 5 to 10 million tourists coming here from the mainland each year. Our universities will be dependent on Chinese students. Large amounts of prime real estate in the major cities will be owned by Chinese investors. I see very large parts of the farming and mining sectors in Chinese hands. How else can a country of 20 million people survive and prosper in this part of the world, with a rising China...
...shops." On a Monday morning in the southwestern suburbs of Sydney, his warehouses are abuzz as workers unload newly arrived shipping containers Since the early '70s, Salha has been buying goods in Asia, watching the focus shift from Hong Kong to Japan to Korea to Taiwan and now to mainland China. When he first went to Guangzhou in 1974, it took him four hours to see all the merchandise at a trade show. "Now it takes six people like me two weeks to cover it," says the quick-eyed Salha, who imports 500 containers a year. Sometimes, he adds...
...Australia's fascination with Chinese art should continue to grow - a huge survey of its newest mainland forms, "Critical Mass," is planned for Sydney in 2007, just in time for the Beijing Games. These artists are not "against the tide," insists the show's curator, Binghui Huangfu, "rather, they are part of the tide. So nobody can stop them...