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...improve their relationship. That's familiar talk to anyone following China policy, even if it is a shift in tone for the Bush administration. Campaigning last fall, Bush pegged China as a strategic competitor. Earlier this year, defense secretary Donald Rumsfeld suggested it was time for the military to orient its strategic thinking toward the objective of containing Chinese regional ambitions in Asia. Bush also broke a taboo by vowing to "do whatever it takes" to defend Taiwan against an attack from the mainland - although that may have been a rhetorical slip, given his hurried efforts immediately afterwards to reassure...
...kept out of the last two years of negotiations. And it's easy to see why he might have caused unease among some potential rivals. He was highly respected by the international community as a man of ideas, a moderate, but also a nationalist. He had succeeded in establishing Orient House as a Palestinian address in Jerusalem, and that gave him a great deal of political influence. Besides meeting Arafat in Ramallah or Gaza, foreign envoys and diplomats used to come to Orient House and meet Faisal Husseini. And there was a great deal of political significance in that...
...behind the billboards and the leading movie roles lurks a disturbing subtext. For Eurasians, acceptance is certainly welcome and long overdue. But what does it mean if Asia's role models actually look more Western than Eastern? How can the Orient emerge confident if what it glorifies is, in part, the Occident? "If you only looked at the media you would think we all looked indo except for the drivers, maids and comedians," says Dede Oetomo, an Indonesian sociologist at Airlangga University in Surabaya. "The media has created a new beauty standard...
Perhaps, through some great act of simultaneity, I could re-orient myself. Perhaps, though far apart from friends, I could nonetheless marshal the forces of e-mail towards community. I sent a message out into the void asking a simple question: What are you doing right...
...crosswords, I am fine. Maybe you should hold off publishing articles like this one until all the facts are known. Until then, Dick Cheney and I will be closely watched to see if I forget my keys or he forgets a meeting in the Oval Office. GERTRUDE VAN HOOYDONCK Orient...