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...basket-case neighbor to embrace reform and globalization rather than just providing generous aid to prop up the regime. If that happened, the underground railroad created by American Christians would eventually grind to a halt, a result that I am sure they and other activists would warmly welcome. Chen Liang Singapore Although the human-rights violations being committed in North Korea are sickening, they are unfortunately nothing new. The world has known for decades about North Korea's Stalinist-inspired gulags, in which individuals found guilty of such crimes as reading a foreign newspaper and singing a South Korean...
...right direction would be spurring its basket-case neighbor to embrace globalization rather than just providing aid to prop up the regime. If that happened, the underground railroad created by American Christians would come to a halt, a result they and other activists would warmly welcome. CHEN LIANG Singapore...
Disneyland is supposed to be "The Happiest Place on Earth," but Liang Ning isn't too happy. The engineer brought his family to Disney's new theme park in Hong Kong from the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou one Saturday in April with high hopes, but by day's end, he was less than spellbound. "I wanted to forget the world and feel like I was in a fairytale," he says. Instead, he complains, "it's just not big enough" and "not very different from the amusement parks we have" in China. His seven-year-old daughter Yaqin disagrees, calling...
Disneyland is supposed to be "The Happiest Place on Earth," but Liang Ning isn't too happy. The engineer brought his family to Disney's new theme park in Hong Kong from the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou one Saturday in April with high hopes, but by day's end, he was less than spellbound. "I wanted to forget the world and feel like I was in a fairytale," he says. Instead, he complains, "it's just not big enough" and "not very different from the amusement parks we have" in China. His seven-year-old daughter Yaqin disagrees, calling...
...defeats in the Opium Wars, the Qing mandarins decided China must strengthen itself by observing the ways of other countries. But for all their awe at America's technological prowess, of "fire-wheeled vehicles" that moved faster than a Daoist sage "riding the wind," signs of distrust soon emerged. Liang Qichao, a Chinese reformer who visited the U.S. in 1903, expressed concern about American imperialist tendencies. After reading President Teddy Roosevelt's comments on the need for a greater U.S. role in the Pacific, Liang wrote: "I could not stop feeling afraid...