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...sounds true enough. Between these two worlds, separated only by a narrow strait, you have the biggest political, economic and social disparity imaginable. It's more than an island against-mainland matter. It's capitalism against communism. Freedom against control. And, above all, a population of 21 million against 1.2 billion. It would be no exaggeration for the mainlanders to claim, which some of them once did out of envy and hostility, that if each of the 1.2 billion residents in the People's Republic of China (PRC) spit into the Taiwan Strait, the island of Taiwan would be submerged...
...Americas, a look at native tribes showed that they were not all blood brothers. The three main groups, classified by language, were found to be genetically distinct, suggesting that three separate populations from Asia may have crossed the Bering Strait at different times to settle in America. The Amerind, who predominate in most of North and South America, possess only type O blood; among the Na-Dene, who cluster in Alaska, Canada and the U.S. Southwest, O prevails but A makes an appearance; in the Alaskan and Canadian Inuit (Eskimo), A, B, AB and O blood groups show the pattern...
...Pyongyang reiterated that any such move would be considered an act of war. Tokyo declared that it may even join an action brought by only the U.S. and South Korea, if the U.N. proved too indecisive, a strong stand for the Japanese government. About 50 miles of the Korean strait separates Japan from Korea...
...found by Columbus and Cortes when they first arrived in the New World. That's wrong, of course. Even North and South American Indians had immigrants for ancestors: northeastern Asians who crossed from Siberia to Alaska in prehistoric times across the bridge of land that then spanned the Bering Strait...
People on both sides of the Taiwan Strait have long agreed on one thing: there should be only one China. While the political gulf between Taiwan and the People's Republic remains huge, the two Chinas have scheduled private talks in Singapore within the next few weeks that could be the first step toward closer ties. The agenda may include the introduction of direct transportation links, perhaps starting with service between the Taiwan-controlled island of Quemoy and Xiamen, one of the mainland's free-marketeering special economic zones. Why talk now? Both sides may be concerned about recent electoral...