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...billion of foreign aid Japan has given to China over the years, some of these observers fear that Chinese leaders will continue to play the history card whenever they consider it expedient. "In the post-cold-war era, the [Chinese] Communist Party is using nationalism as an ideology to maintain legitimacy," says Keizo Takemi, an LDP member who heads the Young Diet Members' group. "Anti-Japanism is an important part of Chinese nationalism, and has become an outlet for pent-up discontent among the young...
...China is not talking about friendship or an equal footing with Japan, it clearly wants regional leadership," says Yoichiro Sato, an associate professor at the Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies in Honolulu. "Japanese leaders haven't resigned themselves to this, and they will put up a fight to maintain their influence in the region...
...using more than their allocated emissions would have to rent “emission space” from those using less than their allocated emissions. Arguably, this could lead to a self-correcting market where the over-emitters as well as under-emitters would have an equal incentive to maintain low emissions. This, of course, is a notional schema. The real point is that the key question of how to allocate emission rights in an unequal world was left unanswered by Kyoto, but it cannot remain unanswered forever...
Worry not you nervous faithful, the show’s innovative mixture of humor styles isn’t going to change. “We wanted to keep the characters themselves, and the show, exactly as it was,” assures MacFarlane. He maintains that Fox does all they can to help the show maintain the edginess that has made it popular with its largely student-based audience...
With no one to honor, the men cancelled the event and tossed out a few months worth of solid preparation. Striving to maintain the annual tradition, the BMF made up for the cancellation by having two Celebrations the next school year. That year, the BMF experienced more challenges as internal conflicts caused the executive board to change four times and three members were forced to resign from their positions...