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...does continue to have some public support. Despite the large Taipei rally, poll results show that a majority of Taiwan's population approve of parts of Ma's China policies, such as direct transportation links. "Ma will be more cautious" in the wake of the large rally, says Yang Tai-shuenn, a political science professor at Taiwan's Chinese Culture University. However, "the only hope for Taiwan's economy is China. Ma has no option but to rely more on China...
...With reporting by Lin Yang / Beijing...
...Many experimental musicians started with rock, before slowly abandoning it for the freedom and creative space that is experimental music," says Lao Yang, the owner of Sugar Jar, a tiny record shop in Beijing that serves as the epicenter of this burgeoning avant-garde. Michael Ohlsson, a Shanghai-based music promoter, speculates that musicians are being drawn to the experimental scene because the music being produced is a purist's form and often has no lyrics. As such, it is far less likely to offend officialdom than, say, punk, which tends to be much more verbose, socially engaged and populist...
...China has yet to declare a plan to put an astronaut on the moon. But that is the ultimate goal of the steps its program has been taking, says Johnson-Freese. On October 15 and 16, 2003, Chinese astronaut Yang Liwei completed 14 orbits of the earth in Shenzhou V, making China the third nation after the U.S.S.R. and the U.S. to put a human into space independently. Two years later Shenzhou VI carried two Chinese astronauts into space. This week's Shenzhou VII spacewalk is part of preparations for constructing a Chinese space lab. Subsequent flights would carry...
...With reporting by Austin Ramzy, Lin Yang and Jessie Jiang...