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...while they're not immune to the hot and cold winds of politics, artists and curators have become adept at taking shelter from them most of the time. "After all, we share the same traditions," says Yeh Wen-wen, Cloud Gate's executive director. "From both sides, we can appreciate how hard it is to become a creative artist." Doing away with decades of mistrust isn't easy either, but artistic communities on both sides of the strait can take a well-deserved...
...That's just one example of the long-term impact of the government's focus on the Me generation. In an article in the official mouthpiece People's Daily published in February, Premier Wen Jiabao stressed that economic growth should take precedence over democratic reforms for the foreseeable future, a period that he appeared to indicate could stretch to 100 years. And yet for all its machinery of control, the party is vulnerable. Senior cadres from Wen on down have acknowledged in public that growing unrest in the provinces, as farmers clash with police over expropriated land or official corruption...
...protestors while abiding by FAS guidelines. When controversial DePaul University Professor Norman G. Finkelstein came to Harvard Law School in 2005, many students shouted at and heckled the speaker, but no one was ejected, no one was arrested, and no charges were filed. Similarly, when in 2003 Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao was met by a protester who interrupted his speech shouting pro-Tibetan slogans and unfurling a Tibetan flag, they were removed from the auditorium without incident or arrest. There is no reason why HUPD could not have acted in a similar, appropriate manner this time.Making matters worse, HUPD attempted...
...Green diplomacy has already borne some fruit: When Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao came to Tokyo earlier this month - the first visit to Japan by a Chinese leader in nearly seven years - the two sides kept to a minimum discussion of the painful shared history that had aggravated tensions between them, instead trumpeting plans to cooperate on the environment. Few concrete details emerged from the meetings, although a normally truculent Beijing did agree for the first time to actively discuss what should happen after Kyoto. But the summit's amicability showed that environment could provide the basis for safe diplomacy...
...melted considerably, but the water remains cold.' WANG YI, China's ambassador to Japan, on relations between the two countries following talks between Premier Wen Jiabao and Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in Tokyo April 11 and 12. Wen's trip marked the first diplomatic visit to Japan by a Chinese leader in nearly seven years