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...Yasukuni?not Japan's longstanding ties to the U.S.?that is straining relations within Asia to a breaking point. The leaders of South Korea and China refused to have formal bilateral meetings with Koizumi at December's East Asian summit in Kuala Lumpur. At the APEC summit in November, South Korea's President Roh Moo Hyun told Koizumi the visits to Yasukuni were "totally unacceptable." Tang Jiaxuan, a Chinese State Council member in charge of diplomacy, said that the issue has made Sino-Japanese relations "the most difficult" since the two nations normalized diplomatic ties in 1972. And Wang...
...asked, "What do you want me to do?" I said, "Stop it." One young man telling one old grizzly, guerrilla fighter: "Stop it." He said, "Give me time." Eighteen months later he stopped it. That man faced reality. I'm convinced that his visit to Bangkok, Kuala Lumpur and Singapore, that journey, in November '78, was a shock to him. He expected three third-world cities; he saw three second-world cities, better than Shanghai or Beijing. As his aircraft door closed, I turned around to my colleagues, I said, [his aides] are getting a shellacking. They gave...
...parade of presidents, prime ministers, princes and their attendant ministers began with the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit held in mid-November at South Korea's seaside city of Pusan. And it will end with the opening on Dec. 14 of the first East Asia summit in Kuala Lumpur...
...summit may not live up to its hype; few such gatherings do. But it is not unreasonable to see the meeting in Kuala Lumpur as a punctuation mark in the 60-year-long progress of Asia. The leaders of the 10 countries of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations will meet together with those of Japan, South Korea, India, Australia, New Zealand - and China. The U.S will not be present. Some of the more breathless commentary on the summit sees parallels to the meeting of European leaders in Messina in 1955, which laid the foundations for what has become...
...were on fishing boats close to shore in the Gulf of Aden off northern Somalia. But over the past year or so pirates have moved south and have begun to strike at ships further out at sea. Until 2003, the International Maritime Bureau's Piracy Reporting Center in Kuala Lumpur recommended that ships stay at least 50 nautical miles from the Somali coast. Last year they increased that to 100 nautical miles and this year many shipping companies are telling their captains to stay at least 200 nautical miles offshore. "It is a very lucrative business and with...