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...peninsula's capital, Petropavlovsk, founded in 1740 by Danish explorer Vitus Bering?Xfor whom the Bering Sea and Strait are named?Xis a morass of Soviet-style apartment blocks and potholed streets, incongruously framed by a mist-swathed harbor and snowcapped volcanoes. Its few hotels and restaurants are drab. Yet we found a certain eccentric charm in menus featuring "fern salad" and "boiled pieces of paste" for breakfast and "burning mussels with rice" and "cowberry drink" for dinner...
Kirby said debate about cross-strait relationship was noticeably absent from the race, which focused on city governance...
Panelists discussed the contentious relationship between Taiwan and China at the ARCO Forum last Friday, addressing cross-strait economic gaps and the nature of U.S.-Taiwanese relations...
Steven M. Goldstein, co-director of the Taiwan Studies Workshop at the Fairbank Center for East Asian Research, described the current state of cross-strait relationships as an “equilibrium resulting from stalemate” in which “neither side can achieve its maximal goals...
During the question-and-answer session, Romberg and Perkins rejected the possibility of a U.S.-mediated cross-strait discussion, while Kirby made a wry reference to America’s “success” in solving problems Middle East...