Thursday, August 26, 2004

News

Bad Weather Ravages China: As of Thursday morning, no casualties had been reported in eastern Fujian Province after the year's second strongest typhoon, Aere, made landfall at Fuqing City at around 4:30 PM Wednesday.

China Will Use Ping-Pong to Influence Hong Kong Elections: More than three decades after China used Ping-Pong diplomacy to start resuming ties with the United States, Beijing is trying it again—this time in an attempt to influence elections in Hong Kong. [free reg. req.]

China Fears Once and Future Kingdom: Highlighting history's weight in modern Asia, China and South Korea, two of the region's closest economic partners, tried to patch over the sharpest crisis in 12 years of diplomatic relations by agreeing Tuesday to discuss calmly the boundaries of a kingdom that disappeared from maps 1,300 years ago. [free reg. req.]


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