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...Even the country the size of a booger criticized Taiwan." CHEN TAM-SUN, Taiwan Foreign Minister, responding to Singaporean Foreign Minister George Yu, who cautioned against Taiwan's asserting its independence from China in a U.N. speech...
...technology and capability to develop a medium-range missile program, which is supported by a secret government budget," Lee told TIME. "We've entered the test-fire phase and may be able to begin mass production in two to five years." In a statement last month, Premier Yu Shyi-kun made it clear that Taiwan would use the missiles if attacked. Yu called for a cold war-style "balance of terror" between the island and China. "If you fire 100 missiles at me, I should be able to fire 100 missiles at you, or at least 50," he told legislators...
...further reforms stalled. An effort to induct only children with an interest in sports?instead of targeting those with promising physiques?was scrapped. "When we got the Beijing Olympics, people realized we couldn't give up a system that had produced such good results," says Zhao Yu, a sports historian whose book, Superpower Dream, critiques China's Olympic efforts. He adds, "Sports is really the only way in which socialism has been successful in China." The nation's obsession with sporty achievements dates back to Chairman Mao Zedong himself, who once demonstrated his vitality by swimming a stretch...
...Jason Yu, a rising seventh grader at Belmont Day School, said his “Move That Body” anatomy class had determined through surveys that Summerbridge students got enough exercise, but needed to cut fast food from their diets and add in several glasses of milk...
...leaving room for the Russians, Canadians and Americans. Perhaps the most disconcerting moment came in a U.S. contest earlier this month, when Guo, a favorite for the 3-m springboard event, misstepped and ended up belly-flopping in the pool. After a series of uninspiring meets earlier this year, Yu Fen, a former skipper of the national team, sniped that "there may be something wrong with the training methods," even hinting that a lack of discipline is hurting China's Olympic chances...