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...Ching and the CASS academics were not the only detainees to make headlines. Police passed to the prosecutor's office last week the investigation into Zhao Yan, a Beijing researcher for the New York Times who has been held incommunicado since September. Zhao is under investigation for both fraud and leaking state secrets, but his lawyer has not yet seen details of the police reports. In April, Shi Tao, a Chinese journalist, was sentenced to 10 years in prison for leaking state secrets to foreign media. (What was leaked and to whom has not been made public?those details...
...policy with notable insouciance. "India is 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...
...unclear, it hardly seems sensible to shift the balance of 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...
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...Reviewer Yan Zhao can can be be reached at yanzhao@fas.harvard.edu...