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...Most of all, Ma regales the packed room with his vision of Taiwan's future - one based on a radically altered relationship with Taiwan's rival, China. Taiwan, he tells one inquisitive villager, needs to strengthen its ties to China for the benefit of its economy and society. Chinese tourists, he says, would visit Taiwan in the millions and lavishly spend their newly earned wealth. "But we don't want to just make money off the Chinese," Ma says. "We want to make friends with them. Then there will be less likelihood...
...Such sentiments are the reason Taiwan's March 22 presidential election is potentially one of the most important East Asia has seen in recent memory. A Ma victory could usher in a sea change in the tense relationship between China and Taiwan. In 1949 Mao Zedong's communists chased Chiang Kai-shek's KMT from the mainland after a brutal civil war, and ever since the two have glared icily at each other across the narrow but heavily armed strait that separates them. Beijing considers Taiwan to be no more than a wayward province destined to be reunified under communist...
...spokesman Dmitri Peskov: "When people say Russia has no free media, they totally forget about the existence of Novaya Gazeta. Certainly, this paper is quite liberal, very frequently opposing the official point of view ... We can't always agree with what is being published, but this is a normal relationship between official bodies and the media." In other words, All you moralizing Westerners, our press is just as rambunctious as yours...
...improve the tense relationship between U.S. museums and foreign governments, both Ebbinghaus and Cuno recommend a twofold strategy: performing stringent background checks on objects while finding new ways for museums to permanently acquire artifacts...
...performanceilluminates the rationale behind his violentchoices. “It’s not qualities I liked inthe man,” Cooper said, “it’s qualities I understood,where I found a parallel in hisbehavior, in his reactions, in his relationship.”“Married Life,” which is based on theJohn Bingham novel “Five Roundaboutsto Heaven,” takes place in 1949, but thestory itself is remarkably relevant to thepresent day. “We wanted to make a contemporarystory set in the 1940s...