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...influx of free-spending visitors has triggered a migration from the mainland of people seeking tourism-related jobs. In 1970 the year-round population was about 2,000 people; now it is close to 15,000 and growing 8% a year. The new arrivals are already straining the Galapagos' water supply and waste-disposal systems, and they are putting pressure on the social fabric as well. "The newcomers just come here to make money," complains Esperanza Ramos, who arrived with her husband and four children in 1968. Like other residents, she blames the new wave of immigrants, many of whom...
...Forty five years ago, because of the military intervention of the United States, Mao Zedong, reluctantly gave up his ruthless ambition of sparing none. Across the strait, Chiang Kai-shek thought the same. After spending some time interpreting Mao's "mercy," Chiang also subdued his obsession of recapturing the mainland, and his dream of visiting his hometown one more time gradually faded away. With the United States in between, relative peace was achieved out of a forced balance of explosive tension...
...would arise. Missile tests and rhetorical charges may just be the beginning. In case he failed to understand this from his brief experience as a Communist Party member himself when he was young. President Lee should always keep in mind, that the word "unpredictability" in some ways best describes mainland China's governmental policies throughout its short history as the People's Republic...
...relationship between mainland China and Taiwan has always been a strange one. Chinese leaders like to portray China and Taiwan as father and son, while President Lee terms the two republics as brothers. A top government official from Taiwan has an even more vivid description--a divorced couple, with the husband forcing the ex-wife to remarry him and keeping her from dating other guys. No matter how we try to see through this awkward relationship from different perspectives, one thing should be clear: nobody wants a war. Therefore, both sides should stay calm and face the reality. Especially...
...biggest investors in mainland China and Southeast Asia, Taiwan should go on to influence the world using its economic might instead of focusing only on a U.N. seat. By assisting the economic development in these countries, Taiwan would gradually gain the support it seeks and responses from the mainland would not be too angry when it carefully takes a little step forward in the pursuit of nationalism. Mainland China, on the other hand, should also put the emphasis on domestic growth, bearing in mind that antagonism does little good. After all, if in the future China replaces...