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...philosophical dispute is far more than a historical curiosity. Through the centuries, China has struggled to find its proper place in the world. The pendulum has shifted back and forth between openness and insularity, between the spirit embodied in Zheng He and that of, say, Yang Rong, the Confucian tutor to the Emperor who argued for rolling back the power of eunuch adventurers like Zheng He. The Confucians won; China wouldn't emerge again as a naval force until the past decade or so, as it began to build up a sizable fleet, probe disputed islands like the Spratlys...
...Carol Yang is convinced she has it all. Her mother isn't so sure. True, Yang has a job at an international public relations firm and is married to a loving husband. But Yang doesn't have any children, and her mother worries about that. "She thinks that I'm not a complete woman if I don't have kids," says Yang, 33, a manager in Shanghai. "But I tell her that times have changed and that children are no longer the measure of a successful woman...
...Yang's attitude should hearten China's womb police, who have spent two decades attempting to control the nation's population. They have succeeded remarkably well. Today the average Chinese woman has two children, compared with six 30 years ago. "For all the bad press, China has achieved the impossible," says Sven Burmester, the U.N. Population Fund representative in Beijing. "The country has solved its population problem...
...Without applications, the industry will not grow," warns Legend CEO Yang Yuanqing. But it's not easy to persuade rivals that cooperation is worthwhile. Legend, more than any Chinese player, has pushed for common, open standards. So far that hasn't paid off for Legend or its partners. The PC maker introduced China's first PDA based on Microsoft's Chinese Windows CE in May 1999. It has also promoted H-Open, a Chinese operating system it co-developed with a government think tank. But today, PDAs with Windows account for just 15% of Legend's sales, while buyers flock...
...country is convinced the tax investigation is a political witch-hunt, according to a poll by broadcaster MBC and Gallup Korea. It was certainly a big operation: more than 400 full-time tax inspectors worked over five months. The fines are also among the heftiest ever imposed. According to Yang Seung Ham, a professor of political science at Yonsei University in Seoul: "This was definitely a political decision. The government decided it couldn't postpone doing something about the media...