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...never met anyone who wears the clothes she makes. For nearly two years the 20-year-old rice farmer's daughter has worked at the Chaida Garment Factory in the steamy southern Chinese city of Kaiping, stitching seams on winter jackets for such companies as Timberland. Amid the clatter of sewing machines, surrounded by mountains of down vests headed for the U.S., Liu tries to imagine the people whose wardrobes have given her a job. "They must be very tall and very rich," she muses. "But beyond that, I really can't picture what their lives are like...
Within the Bush Administration, there are signs of dissonance on how to deal with China. "We have the best relations [with China] that we've had in some time--perhaps ever," said Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on her recent tour of Asia. Yet on June 4 in Singapore, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld made headlines with a hawkish speech, asserting that "China's defense expenditures are much higher than Chinese officials have published." Rumsfeld continued, "Since no nation threatens China ... why these continuing large and expanding arms purchases? Why these continuing robust deployments?" The next day, Rice tried to square...
...small biotech company in San Diego, to pursue opportunities at home. An offshoot of Beijing's Tsinghua University (often called the M.I.T. of China), CapitalBio is among an élite group of Chinese life-sciences companies and research institutes. At the Beijing Genomics Institute researchers have decoded the rice genome and worked to find a cure for SARS. CapitalBio has already shown it also plays on the world stage. Awarded the contract to test athletes for banned substances at the 2008 Beijing Olympics, CapitalBio has designed a new chip that can screen as many as 10,000 samples...
...half the minimum needed for survival. Thanks to market reforms implemented in the past few years, more North Koreans have been able to supplement dwindling government handouts by buying food at private food markets. But reforms have also caused food prices to soar. The price of rice has doubled in the past year, putting it out of reach of most families. Millions of urban North Koreans have reportedly been sent into the countryside to help with spring planting. Pyongyang's propaganda arm recently released photos showing military officers standing beside rice paddies in which volunteer field laborers toiled. Messages exhorting...
...tons, and has yet to promise any new food aid this year. (U.S. officials complain that Pyongyang still isn't allowing adequate international monitoring to ensure food goes to the needy.) Meanwhile, South Korea, too, has been stingier with the North of late. Seoul shipped 1.2 million tons of rice to Pyongyang over the last three years, plus another 300,000 tons of corn through the WFP. This year, it hasn't sent anything. South Korean opposition lawmaker Won Hee Ryong last week accused Roh's government of using food aid as a political tool. "Do we really want...