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...transition, serving as chairman of the Asia Society and chairman of the U.S.-China Business Council, and creating and chairing the International Business Leaders' Advisory Council in Shanghai. The Chinese remain so enamored of Greenberg that this year they honored him with their prestigious Marco Polo Prize for promoting Sino-American relations. "Hank Greenberg is perhaps the best known and most admired American businessman at both top government and top business levels in [India and China]," says Peter G. Peterson, who was an economic adviser to Richard Nixon and has known Greenberg for years...
...frozen again after Chinese Vice Premier Wu Yi snubbed Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi by canceling their meeting at the last minute; China later noted that Koizumi's recent comments on visiting the Yasukuni Shrine to honor Japan's war dead made "it unfavorable to the healthy development of Sino-Japanese relations." Here's how a single shrine continues to keep Asia's two powerhouses at odds...
Young Professor of Sino-Vietnamese History Hue-Tam Ho Tai suggested that the Freshman Writing Tutorials recommended to replace Expository Writing should allow students to learn writing techniques for a variety of disciplines...
...After months of escalation, tensions climaxed two weeks ago when protests in China over Japanese schoolbook revisions that glossed over some of Japan's worst World War II atrocities metastasized into widespread anti-Japanese riots. Newspaper editorials and politicians in Japan began talking ominously about "the lowest point in Sino-Japanese relations in 30 years" and the rising likelihood of an "Asian cold...
...hope to normalize Sino-Soviet relations. But there are three obstacles that must be removed. First, Soviet support for the Vietnamese invasion of Kampuchea. Second, Afghanistan. Third, reduction of missiles and troops on the Sino-Soviet border. These three obstacles threaten not only China but also all of Asia. We bring this up at every meeting with the Soviets, and we realize that removing all three at the same time "might be difficult." [So now we say] one at a time. So far we have had no positive response...