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...island's status, President Jiang Zemin immediately offered aid and condolences to the victims, and China's Red Cross began allocating funds and relief supplies for the island. The quake "hurt the hearts of people on the mainland as the Chinese people on both sides of the Taiwan Strait are as closely linked as flesh and blood," China's official news agency quoted Jiang as saying. But assistance from Beijing may turn out to be a political hot potato, because unlike Greece and Turkey, which have recently managed to overcome some the traditional hostility between them by helping each other...
Infuriated by Lee's abandonment last month of the "one China" principle, China has been flooding pro-Beijing papers in Hong Kong with scare stories, as well as filling the skies over the Taiwan Strait with warplanes, in part to send a message to Taiwan's voters who will choose Lee's successor next year. The experts don't discount the risk that this psychological warfare could by accident erupt into the real thing, but figure Beijing has too much at stake right now, including an upcoming Clinton-Jiang meeting and a long-sought deal to get into the World...
...says Dowell. "They?re very aware of the need to avoid making huge threats from which they later have to back down." In the future, though, don't expect Beijing to cease from periodically testing U.S. resolve to get involved in the 50-year-old conflict across the Taiwan Strait...
Veteran country crooner Strait is like that old reliable pickup truck parked on your gravel driveway, the one that starts every time you turn the ignition key, without fail, no matter how cold a morning it is. His new album is straight Strait, traditional my-heart's-been-broke country, without frills or filler. The lyrics revel in comfortably familiar country contradiction: "I ain't missin' you/ That's a lie, and that's the truth," he sings on one track. This is a short CD--in typically spare Strait fashion, there are just 10 songs--but that...
...Mainland China will find it very difficult to maintain the nationalism and hegemonism that it relies on now for its rule. Society on the mainland will become more pluralized. In that case, cross-strait relations will grow closer than at present...