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Since Go is popular mostly in mainland China, Japan and Korea, most of the club's members were foreign students. They met informally four hours every week, but some games lasted for days, says former president Jinku...
...were earning praise outside it. Boat People by Ann Hui of Hong Kong was withdrawn from competition, reportedly at the insistence of the French government, which is seeking to solidify its relations with the Socialist Republic of Viet Nam. The caution is understandable: this film, shot partly in mainland China, is a powerful piece of humanist propaganda about a family trying to escape Da Nang three years after the U.S. forces evacuated Viet...
...assortment of aircraft on both sides--can travel hundreds of miles and destroy every major target in Europe, including Russia. Tactical weapons, by definition, are short-range, low-yield nuclear devices designed for battlefield use against military targets. In contrast, strategic weapons can destroy the mainland U.S. and U.S.S.R...
...Navy, where he was commissioned to command a couple of little mine sweepers and act as the executive officer of the Destroyer Escort. When the war ended. Anderson considered staying on in the Navy, but his father's failing health and other family concerns brought him back to the mainland. For the next 20 years, Anderson was self-employed in the investment business until his early retirement in 1963. The next year Anderson came back to Harvard to organize his 25th reunion. "I never had so much fun," the sailor man says, and apparently he was telling the truth because...
Nevertheless, many such criticisms of Communist China are valuable in deflating the overblown Western image of the mainland's usefulness. Consider, for example, the claim that the communists intend the West no good. Recent ultra-nationalist sloganeering about Hong Kong and Taiwan has in fact flourished. The implementation of the new constitution has shown the moderate Deng Xiaoping's power to far from uncontested--and in the struggle after his inevitable removal or death, domestic concerns could render all predictions of a "pragmatic" foreign policy worthless. The communists have not brought stability to China. Domestically, in 35 years they have...