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During his campaign for Taiwan's presidency, Ma Ying-jeou struck a conciliatory note with rival China, telling TIME he wanted to "make friends" with Taiwan's giant - and often very unfriendly - neighbor. Since sweeping to a landslide victory in March, Ma has largely followed up on that sentiment, inaugurating the first non-stop charter service between China and Taiwan since the two split during China's 1949 civil war, and taking steps to loosen regulations limiting Taiwanese investment in the mainland's booming economy...
...guns." Perhaps that was true in 1988. Today, the generals have much more than guns. They have huge revenues from oil and gas, relations with powerful neighbors India and China, and the support - occasionally the censure - of fellow members of ASEAN. They have a large standing army that has struck cease-fires with most of the ethnic rebel armies ranged against it and set about annihilating the rest. In many ways - economically, militarily, politically, regionally - Burma's generals are better off than 20 years...
...begins well for us but badly for its hero: his car runs off a cliff, and he gets burned over most of his body. His face melts into a monstrous scar. He is in chronic pain. His penis has been amputated. His life is over. He is a "spent, struck match...
...China An Extremist Strike Terrorists struck on the eve of the Beijing Olympics when two men in Kashgar, a city in western China's Xinjiang province, killed 16 policemen and wounded 16 more by ramming them with a truck and detonating homemade bombs. Officials said the attackers were Uighurs, an Islamic ethnic minority that has long bristled at China's repressive rule. The attack--perpetrated by extremists whom authorities linked to a group known to pose a threat, in a region long considered a possible target--undermined Chinese assurances that stringent security measures would safeguard the Games...
...Things to All Men Blair says the Met has learned the lessons of Stockwell. But a former counterterrorism investigator from France suggests it has not addressed its structural problems. "The Metropolitan Police has always struck me as iconic of English society," the French investigator says. "It merges absolute professionalism, discipline and hard, careful work with a kind of organization that creates disorganization. Services aren't sufficiently interconnected...