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Experts on both sides of the Pacific have welcomed the liberalization of mainland China in the last decade. One Harvard senior, an admitted product of the recent enlightenment, epitomizes the freer inquiry and use of Western knowledge that China wants to harness...
...Huang downplays this personal risk, saying his government puts no political restraints on him and one other Harvard student from mainland China. Conceding that as recently as 1980 the government had far less trust, he calls the recent reforms "a wonderful idea and a historical necessity...
Huang, whose parents write for official mainland publications, says he was "chosen by Harvard, not by the government," to attend school here, after alumni in Peking administered an exam that mostly tested ability to speak and write English. He wrote an essay on "the religious calling in American jobs"--a subject he freely admits to know nothing about...
Despite its awkwardness, the ceremony put an end to the years of tension between Britain and Spain that have kept the barrier between the Spanish mainland and Europe's last remaining colony tightly locked. Indeed the opening of the gate was a precondition for the holding of talks between Britain and Spain over the Rock's future. For the Spanish, who next year hope to enter the European Community, the reopening was a political necessity to improve relations with Britain...
...trip to mainland China is optional and at additional cost but is educational and amusing for both the Chinese and Americans said...