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...have no position: the state-run media hasn't yet mentioned him by name. But Chen's anonymity in Beijing is a stark contrast to his globally more visible role brought on by recent American approval of a sophisticated arms-sales package to Taiwan and the deteriorating state of Sino-U.S. relations. Increasingly the spotlight is on Taiwan?and Chen. For the island's majority, the attention may be unwelcome. The place has been thriving in its political ambiguity. Is it China? Not China? Does it really matter anymore to the average Taiwanese...
...zero casualty” logic in his column “Appeasing the Chinese” (Opinion, April 16). Apparently, George W. Bush is a coward for having the patience and humility to bring our boys back home safely with relatively little damage to Sino-American relations. Ross, on the other hand, is more than willing to expend other people’s lives to show those uppity Chinese who’s their daddy. If only the reigns of power were held by someone as brave as this Crimson columnist, then those Chinese wouldn?...
...though, the question is not so much what this meeting means for Sino-U.S. relations, but what it may mean for Asia as a whole. There are many regional issues that require a great deal of Sino-U.S. cooperation - North Korea, for example. South Korea's President Kim Dae Jung's "Sunshine Policy" of rapprochement with North Korea requires the support of China, the U.S., Russia and Japan. If China and the U.S. look for ways to punish each other and they stop cooperating on North Korea, that could mean the failure of President Kim's policy. Taiwan...
...Bush administration. Given the continuing standoff over a downed spy plane and Bush’s characterization of China as a “strategic competitor,” tensions between the two powers have escalated. But one particularly divisive measure—perhaps the most important in Sino-U.S. relations—is a proposed sale of submarines and the Aegis radar system to Taiwan. In this particularly tense time, the arms sale proposed by the Bush administration would be extremely ill-advised and could cause irreparable harm to the relationship between China...
...formative moment in the development of Sino-British relations came in 1784. In that year an elderly gunner on a British vessel, the Lady Hughes, was ordered by his captain to fire a salute in Canton harbor. He did so, but failed to notice a Chinese lighter loading cargo in the vicinity. The explosion from the ship's gun seriously injured three Chinese on the lighter, two of whom died shortly afterward from their wounds. The Chinese authorities, in accordance with Chinese law that "a Native of this country having been killed... whether by accident or design," the person responsible...