Word: sino
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...online versions of the Feb. 3 news article, "Job Offers Up for Young Historians," incorrectly stated that the director of graduate studies for Harvard's history department is James T. Kloppenberg. In fact, that post is held by Hue-Tam Ho Tai, who is also the Young professor of Sino-Vietnamese history. Kloppenberg is the chair of the department's graduate admissions committee...
...Koizumi at December's East Asian summit in Kuala Lumpur. At the APEC summit in November, South Korea's President Roh Moo Hyun told Koizumi the visits to Yasukuni were "totally unacceptable." Tang Jiaxuan, a Chinese State Council member in charge of diplomacy, said that the issue has made Sino-Japanese relations "the most difficult" since the two nations normalized diplomatic ties in 1972. And Wang Yi, China's ambassador to Japan, recently told the foreign press in Tokyo that a Japan-China summit?which has not happened since Koizumi visited Beijing in 2001?would only take place after "political...
Hurricane Katrina may be wreaking havoc on more than just national politics. It has also placed a pause on the unfolding drama that is the Sino-American relationship by forcing a rescheduling of President Hu Jintao’s first U.S. visit as China’s head of state. Originally, Hu was scheduled to arrive in Washington, D.C., on Sept. 7 for a summit with President George W. Bush; he would also have visited Canada and Mexico before attending the sixtieth anniversary session of the United Nations in mid-September. Now, in the face of national emergency, a meeting...
Moreover, there are the numerous immediate economic issues that have so elevated Sino-U.S. tensions this summer. First there was the uproar about textile quotas. Since Jan. 1 when global textile quotas were abolished, Chinese textiles have flooded American markets, resulting in job losses and industry complaints. The ensuing negotiations, which are still progressing unhurriedly and uncertainly, have been the cause of much friction between Beijing and Washington. Another touchy area is that of China’s currency. Many U.S. trade groups accuse China of keeping the yuan artificially cheap to bolster exports. The yuan was revalued...
...Wang Xiaodong Researcher, China Youth Research Center, Beijing The Taiwan issue is the most urgent short-term problem in Sino-U.S. relations, but I believe two other issues are more important in the long term. One is relations between China and Japan. Second, as China grows stronger, the country will be obligated to play a larger role in maintaining world order. The U.S. needs to decide how to accept China...