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...changed today, it didn't change yesterday." Many analysts, however, simply assumed that a neophyte President hadn't studied his briefing books and had merely answered the wrong question. Bells were ringing not only in Beijing?where the Foreign Ministry denounced Bush's comments as "erroneous remarks"?and Taipei, but all around the Pacific, including Japan, whose bases the U.S. would need to help defend Taiwan...
...simply answered the wrong question. The Bushies, after deriding Clinton for letting domestic politics drive foreign policy, displayed a cavalier attitude about the impact of the President's words overseas. Bells were ringing not only in Beijing--where the Foreign Ministry denounced them as "erroneous remarks"--and Taipei, but all around the Pacific, including Japan, whose bases the U.S. would need to help defend Taiwan...
Vacationing Japanese often take advantage of cheaper prices on items other than Gucci scarves and Louis Vuitton bags. Dentists and doctors in Taiwan and Thailand are increasingly on the tourist trail from Tokyo: a round-trip ticket to Taipei and a visit to a dentist - many of them U.S.-trained - cost less than a lunchtime appointment with a tooth doc at home. Japanese travelers are also increasingly making a beeline for luxury services at bargain prices, like foot massages in Taiwan and herbal steam spas in South Korea...
...jobs-for-life thing, but Taiwan never developed much of an entitlement culture. But take away their Leon Lai downloads, and Taiwanese are ready to storm the barricades. "We cannot remember a time when the students of Taiwan were so united by a burning rage," head-scratched the Taipei Times. The source of this unrest: two weekends ago, authorities in southern Tainan busted into a university dorm room where students were burning bootleg CDs. The predawn sting yielded one guilty coed and 14 MP3-laden computers, which authorities said undermined intellectual property laws. Within days, students compiled...
...animosity continues, sparked at times by recalcitrance on the part of the Japanese government and at other times by the insensitivity - or nationalism - of individual Japanese. In February, politicians in Taiwan marched through the streets of Taipei to burn a comic book by Japanese artist Yoshinori Kobayashi, whose inflammatory take on Taiwan's history portrays so-called comfort women as grateful for the opportunity to work as prostitutes. Indonesians were upset earlier this year by a Japanese film Merdeka, which depicts Japan's imperial army as helping Indonesia's fight for independence. The filmmakers have agreed to delete one particularly...