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...Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs takes in all these signals from abroad. If there is enough support behind the case, there will be an effort to try to get it off the agenda of Sino-U.S. relations,” Cohen said...
...they moved on to war-torn Spain, determined to fight totalitarianism with cameras. The following year, Taro was killed there, in a road accident. Capa was inconsolable, and part of him died with her. Still, he pursued his calling, traveling to China in 1938 to cover the Sino-Japanese war, back to Spain as the Republican cause was collapsing and then, as World War II raged, on to North Africa, Sicily, the Italian mainland and - most traumatically - to Omaha Beach and the slaughter of the D-Day invasion. It was in Spain that Capa took his best-known photo, which...
...Somewhere in Feng Xiaogang's new film there's a course in contemporary Sino-U.S. relations, and students can sift through the plot to try to figure out who's laughing at whom, who's leading whom, who's doing what to whom?and why. And the very making of the movie raises a host of questions: Has Feng taken money from Columbia Pictures to make his film but stuck two fingers up at the U.S.? Or is he lampooning the circus that Beijing has become? Let the academics decide...
...teaches two popular Core courses—Historical Study A-80, “The Cold War,” and Historical Study B-68, “America and Vietnam 1945-1975,” which he teaches with Young Professor of Sino-Vietnamese History...
...counting on Beijing's vastly improved international ties as a key part of his personal legacy. An 11th-hour flare-up with Washington wouldn't help that effort and could risk backfiring. Says Wu Guoguang, a political-science professor at the Chinese University of Hong Kong: "Every time Sino-American relations dip, Jiang ends up looking dumb." So who's stirring the pot? It may be China's hard-liners, particularly in the military and security apparatus, who are more skeptical than Jiang of improved ties with the U.S. Leaking the bugging story on the eve of Bush's visit...