Word: yang
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...Taiwan has been pushing for an invitation every year since 1997, only to have their application be repeatedly blocked by China, which sees the democratic island as a Chinese province and therefore ineligible to participate alongside other sovereign states. "It's an inevitable development," says Political Scientist Yang Tai-shuenn of Taipei's Chinese Culture University. "The pressure from the international community has been accumulating. Health is a universal value China cannot continue to reject...
...Staff writer Helen X. Yang can be reached at hxyang@fas.harvard.edu...
...only go to college in Boston once,” he said. “Why not try to run the Boston Marathon?” —Staff writer Victor W. Yang can be reached at vyang@fas.harvard.edu...
...story here that in its way, in some ways, bigger than the case,” said Nesson. “And it’s the telling of this story that will get the problem fixed.” —Staff Writer Helen X. Yang can be reached at hxyang@fas.harvard.edu...
...part of the motherland" - with which, eventually, they hope to be "united." Only 5% of Taiwanese support unification, according to a March survey, with a full 20% encouraging the island to push for independence from China. "The Chinese always avoid taking pictures with the Taiwanese flag," says Political Scientist Yang Tai-Shuenn of Taipei's Chinese Culture University. "That may insult the Taiwanese people." One 63-year old tourist caused a stir in the Taiwanese media by carving his name and Chinese town in large characters on a rock on a famous stretch of Taiwan's coast. Eventually, the Chinese...