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...Ning Wen and his wife were arrested last fall at their home office in Manitowoc, Wis., for allegedly sending their native China $500,000 worth of computer parts that could enhance missile systems. As these naturalized citizens await trial, similar episodes in Mount Pleasant, N.J., and Palo Alto, Calif., point only to the tip of the iceberg, according to FBI officials keeping tabs on more than 3,000 companies in the U.S. suspected of collecting information for China. A hotbed of activity is Silicon Valley, where the number of Chinese espionage cases handled by the bureau increases...
...past, the NDRC would have backed up the power companies," says Yang Fuqiang, chief China representative for the U.S.-based Energy Foundation, a clean-power advocacy group. "Its support is a sign that [China's] leaders want to back SEPA up." Just days after the Jan. 18 ban, Premier Wen Jiabao praised SEPA at a meeting of senior officials, saying he was pleased to see it "getting down to business." In the end, however, it's unlikely SEPA will be able to hold up construction once the assessments are complete, even though such support has helped the agency bare...
...intellectuals in the early 1980s, and urged high-ranking cadres to study foreign political systems in the 1990s. Since assuming China's top posts?Hu replaced Jiang as Party chief in late 2002, then as President in 2003 and as commander in chief last September?Hu and his Premier, Wen Jiabao, have fashioned themselves as populists by touring hospital wards of SARS patients and spending holidays with peasants. Hu speaks often of helping China's poor, and has increased investment in impoverished western regions. He has talked of strengthening the "rule of law" and protecting rights enshrined in China...
...Taiwan's soul. The green group, comprising the DPP and the Taiwan Solidarity Union, sees the island as an independent entity, if not in name then at least in substance. "The green will win a majority [in the legislature] because of the rise of Taiwan nationalism," predicts Luo Wen-chia, a Cabinet minister and longtime Chen aide. "It's a decision of values-Taiwan values." For the KMT, which leads the blue side, this week's ballot is a battle for survival. "If we don't keep the majority, there's nothing left," says Liao Feng-te, head of organization...
...Nicholas, Antonio L. Perez, Shira R. A. Pinnas, Alexander J. Post, Karl C. Procaccini, Krishna A. Rao, Michael B. Schnall-Levin, Julia A. Stephens, Aditya V. Sunderam, Manik V. Suri, Vaughn Y. H. Tan, Nadim N. Vasanji, Ajit Vyas, Daniel B. Weissman, R. Christian Wyatt, Yan Xuan, Wen-Chi A. Yuan, Minhua Zhang and Brian F. Zingale...