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...plain-talking, down-to-earth, family-loving pop star whose career has skyrocketed in a remarkably short time. A Hong Kong-California hybrid, CoCo got her big break in Taiwan with a karaoke hit in 1994, which she quickly parlayed into mass fame on the Chinese mainland. Disney hired her to do the Chinese voice-over for the movie Mulan (Celine Dion's big break, remember, was voicing Beauty and the Beast). Later one of her songs was chosen for the soundtrack to The Runaway Bride, the Julia Roberts-Richard Gere romance flick. CoCo's current goal is nothing less...
China adamantly opposes letting Taiwan buy four guided-missile destroyers equipped with Aegis radar that can sound an alarm the millisecond a Chinese M-9 missile is fired from the mainland, 160 km away. Beijing fears the new systems would give the island a military edge, whereas Taiwan says the Aegis would merely even the score against the 300 mainland missiles aimed at it. Beijing is also worried that the radar could eventually allow Taiwan to link up with Washington's regional defense shield. "Of all the arms the U.S. could sell, Aegis is the worst," says China's chief...
China adamantly opposes letting Taiwan buy four guided-missile destroyers equipped with Aegis radar that can sound an alarm the millisecond a Chinese M-9 missile is fired from the mainland, 100 miles away. Beijing fears the new systems would give the island a military edge, whereas Taiwan says the Aegis would merely even the score against the 300 mainland missiles aimed at it. Beijing is also worried that the radar could eventually allow Taiwan to link up with Washington's regional defense shield. "Of all the arms the U.S. could sell, Aegis is the worst," says China's chief...
...China's relations with Taiwan, Zhou is "selling something the customer doesn't want and doesn't need." Indeed, Beijing has nothing to sell that is of interest to the U.S. or Taiwan. There is one thing on the market, however, that all three partners--the U.S., Taiwan and mainland China--are interested in: peace. But peace cannot be achieved without mutual respect in this age of globalization. It is hard to shake hands with a fist. Instead of resorting to intimidation, Beijing should emulate the changes that have transformed Taiwan's society. CHUNG GING-LIN Taipei...
...hand-over of Hong Kong to mainland China is a relatively minor event among the emotional cataclysms in this short-story debut. Chiu refracts classic old-vs.-new-world tensions through the prism of second-generation Chinese-American Gen-Xers, inspired more by Kurt Cobain than by Buddha. The resulting chasm between the Chinese Americans and their immigrant parents is filled with disappointments, with tales of anorexia and homophobia, and that stubborn reluctance by young and old to see each other as each wishes to be seen...