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...China was expected to go, well, ballistic. Any move by Taiwan to prove its de facto independence enrages Beijing. When Lee, who was born in Taiwan, was running for President in 1996, Beijing fired missiles into the Taiwan Strait to scare voters away from supporting him. But Beijing's reaction to Lee's recent rally was surprisingly subdued. An official statement said the move had "seriously sabotaged relations" with China, but that's routine rhetoric. Next day, Taiwan's stock market hit new highs...
...when Zubaydah was confronted by the false Saudis, writes Posner, "his reaction was not fear, but utter relief." Happy to see them, he reeled off telephone numbers for a senior member of the royal family who would, said Zubaydah, "tell you what to do." The man at the other end would be Prince Ahmed bin Salman bin Abdul Aziz, a Westernized nephew of King Fahd's and a publisher better known as a racehorse owner. His horse War Emblem won the Kentucky Derby in 2002. To the amazement of the U.S., the numbers proved valid. When the fake inquisitors accused...
...quite aware that more and more Asians are becoming citizens of the world. Although Pico Iyer wrote that "home nowadays has nothing to do with a piece of soil and everything to do with something I carry around inside me," I have a different reaction. Having recently made my own Asian journey home and with three identities deeply inculcated in me, I find it hard to adapt to wherever I live?except in my own house, where I try to bring a little bit of everything together. Hsu Ping-Ya Taipei...
...oddly upbeat reaction from a city that has now suffered seven terrorist attacks in just nine months, with a combined death toll of 69. But the truth is that many in India have good reason not to dwell too deeply on this upsurge in violence?not just businesspeople in the financial capital but also the national government itself, which many blame for inciting such attacks. Typically, India points a finger at Pakistan anytime terrorists strike. But in this case, a quiet consensus is building that the perpetrators were most likely homegrown. Both Indian and U.S. intelligence officers suspect that last...
...called rise in Hindu fundamentalism is a natural reaction to an alarming growth of Islamic puritanism that propagates violence in the name of religion. Your story gave a negative image of Hindus, not an unbiased assessment of the complex religio-political scenario in India. Mandar Kashelikar Pune, India...