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...comments are an indication that China is changing its longstanding "no first use" policy on nuclear weapons. Zhu, who also heads the National Defense University's College of Defense Studies, stressed that he was not speaking for the government?an assertion echoed the next day by Assistant Foreign Minister Shen Guofang, who said Zhu was merely expressing his personal views...
...Shen Dingli, a professor of international affairs at Shanghai's Fudan University, thinks Beijing "didn't expect this reaction" to the antisecession law, even though a top aide to E.U. foreign-policy czar Javier Solana says European ministers warned their Chinese counterparts it would boomerang. Solana's aide says "nobody's closed the door" on lifting the ban, but admits "the tonality has really changed...
...protesters onto the streets of Taipei late last week; and intense pressure from Washington - which fears it might one day be on the receiving end of high-tech weapons in the Taiwan Strait - led several E.U. members to sidle away from a deal to lift the embargo by June. Shen Dingli, a professor of international affairs at Shanghai's Fudan University, thinks Beijing "didn't expect this reaction" to the antisecession law, even though a top aide to E.U. foreign-policy czar Javier Solana says European ministers warned their Chinese counterparts it would boomerang. Solana's aide says "nobody...
Chen and his lawyer, Shen-Sin Lu, responded by showing the Commission a stack of fake IDs that Chen had collected, saying that he asks everyone buying alcohol for two or three IDs. He also presented the Commission with a petition supporting his case, which he said was signed by over 700 people...
DIED. SHIING-SHEN CHERN, 93, mathematician whose "new geometry" theories on how the curvature of a surface can help determine an object's shape influenced fields from theoretical physics to computer graphics; in Tianjin, China. As a teacher, Chern was also influential--so much so that Robert Uomini, a former student of his at the University of California, Berkeley, set up a chair for him at the school with funds from the $22 million Uomini won in the California state lottery...