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...careers of Imperial Japan and Germany. But history need not repeat itself. There is a resilient web of common interests between the U.S. and China that acts like a straitjacket on their strategic competition. Moreover, there are the lessons of history. Yesterday's would-be supremacists were so reckless because they did not know the price of miscalculation: the eventual obliteration of Berlin and Tokyo. Today, nuclear weapons have increased the price a hundred-fold. The Chinese know it, and so do the Americans. Between the two giants of this century, tempers will flare, but smiles will prevail?at this...
...professor of landscape architecture at Peking University, argues that China's current approach to urban development, with its emphasis on size and status over originality, is as environmentally reckless as it is visually dull. With farmland and forests disappearing and water running out, Yu says, cities can't afford be so wasteful: "China needs a dramatic shift. We've misunderstood what it means to be developed. We need to develop a new system, a new vernacular, to express the changing relationship between land and people." When Yu, now 42, returned home in 1997 with a doctorate in design from Harvard...
...whether punitive damages are warranted in this case." To that question, U.S. District Court Judge H. Russel Holland has twice answered yes. Both times, after an appeals court sent it back for review, he agreed with the jury's decision awarding the plaintiffs $4.5 billion, noting that Exxon "demonstrated reckless disregard for a broad range of legitimate Alaska concerns...
...myriad of economic ties to the mainland?the factories of scores of Taiwanese companies are located there. And in many ways, Taiwan?which Beijing regards as a renegade province?already functions as if it were truly independent; when Chen stokes the issue, it strikes many as both gratuitous and reckless, given Beijing's threats to strike with missiles if Taiwan moves to declare itself independent. According to a poll conducted last month by TVBS, a national television network, "boosting the economy" rated nine out of 10 in terms of importance, while "resolving the issue of unification and/or independence" scored just...
...Americans, of course, have a somewhat rougher take on the Arab conglomerate's $6.8 billion bid to purchase Britain-based P&O Steam Navigation, which operates in five U.S. ports as well as the Vancouver terminal. Washington's approval of the U.S. takeovers was "reckless, outrageous and irresponsible," Baltimore Mayor Martin O'Malley said last month. His counterparts in other U.S. cities with prospective Dubai- owned ports have been similarly venomous. And in the U.S. Congress, a bipartisan coalition has vowed to block the deal on the grounds that Dubai has been a way station for terrorists and nuclear smugglers...