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Zhengchu Chen, general manager of Changfeng Motor, doesn't care if his company loses the race to be the first Chinese automaker to sell cars in America. He doesn't worry about rival automakers from the Chinese mainland beating him with coupes or sedans or mini cars that go 50 miles on a gallon of gas. What Chen does care about is exporting a competitive Chinese-made SUV, ideally within a couple of years. "What's important to us is for the market to accept us," he said through an interpretor in an interview at the Detroit auto show...
...spending in the past year. Place such an increase in the context of Taiwan policy and you can start to feel queasy. The island has been governed independently since the defeated forces of Chiang Kai-shek retreated there in 1949. Beijing wants to see the island reunited with the mainland one day. The U.S., although it has a one-China policy and has no formal diplomatic mission in Taiwan, is committed to defend Taiwan from an unprovoked attack by China...
...conditioner" or "Put up the window" - that covers most of your comfort needs en route, but unfortunately the Beijing and Shanghai editions lack these. Such an omission would be forgivable if only they provided the one supplication that springs to a passenger's lips when riding in a mainland-Chinese taxi: "Drive safely. Let's get there alive!" The Taxi Guide series is available from thetaxiguide.com. Shenzhen, Guangzhou, Bangkok, Ho Chi Minh City and Hanoi editions are in the pipeline...
...Nixon, then a defeated candidate for both the presidency and the California governorship, had written in Foreign Affairs magazine: "We simply cannot afford to leave China forever outside the family of nations." Two years later, as President, he let it be known that he wanted to visit the mainland before leaving office. On hearing this, Henry Kissinger, his National Security Adviser, smiled at a colleague and said, "Fat chance." Kissinger would soon find himself responsible for the trip's logistics and official communiqu?s. As for Mao, he had told a party conference in 1956: "In 12 years, Britain, America, West...
...most crucial. 2. V.Nam-most urgent." One of the juiciest subplots in Seize the Hour involves the efforts of Nixon and Kissinger to keep Secretary of State William Rogers out of the loop. The State Department didn't know in advance of Kissinger's first secret trip to the mainland. And it was Kissinger, not Rogers, who was present for the one-hour meeting between Nixon and Mao. But in reviewing the final communiqu?, which failed to include a reference to a defense treaty with Taiwan, the State Department insisted on revision-and thus got revenge...