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...Trade Organization (WTO), of which it is now a member, campaign against China's hosting of the Summer Olympic Games (which will be held in Beijing in 2008) and tie access to the U.S. market to improvements in human rights (unlawful under WTO rules). Now, says Chu Shulong of Tsinghua University in Beijing, "the U.S. is no longer so important for China's national interest." (For those skeptical of that claim: between them, members of China's Politburo Standing Committee have made 36 trips to 77 countries since Hu took over; only one of those trips--by Premier Wen Jiabao...
...Cheng, 42, is at the cusp of that effort. Like an increasing number of other Chinese scientists and engineers, the CEO of CapitalBio Corp. has returned from the U.S., where he ran a small biotech company in San Diego, to pursue opportunities at home. An offshoot of Beijing's Tsinghua University (often called the M.I.T. of China), CapitalBio is among an élite group of Chinese life-sciences companies and research institutes. At the Beijing Genomics Institute researchers have decoded the rice genome and worked to find a cure for SARS. CapitalBio has already shown it also plays...
...already a major country," said Vice Foreign Minister Wu Dawei last week, when asked about the American briefings. Sun Shihai remarked: "If the Bush Administration's partnership with India fosters peace and security in the region, then China will welcome it." And Yan Xuetong, a foreign-relations expert at Tsinghua University, made the obvious?but accurate?point that "being a powerful country is something that only India can do for itself ... the U.S. is not in the business of creating other superpowers...
...power in East Asia. And Europeans should be under no illusions: in Asia, ending the embargo will be seen as a case of China convincing the E.U. to do something the U.S. doesn't want. The policy shift, says Yan Xuetong, director of the Institute of International Studies at Tsinghua University in Beijing, will be evidence of nothing less than "a common interest in Europe and China to combat world domination by America." After a week in which Bush and European leaders reaffirmed their shared values, it is hard to believe that the Europeans really want to send such...
...development won't make an entire community come together." What's more, because Shanghai is a trendsetter for China, other mainland cities might blindly follow, littering the Chinese interior with gargantuan Paris Towns. "If other cities copy Shanghai on this, we could have a disaster on our hands," says Tsinghua University's Mao. "This is not the path that China's urbanization should be taking...