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• Two separate reports from The Wall Street Journal, Monday 13 June 2005: 1. Kamal Nath, India's Minister of Commerce and Industry - ‘China may win the sprint, but India will win the marathon.’ 2. Bo Xilai, China's Minister of Commerce - ‘Chinese people have a saying: "If you respect me by an inch, I'll respect youby a foot."’ (查看原文)

  霸王考拉 2022-12-30 21:50:02

• Japan's apology for its war record in Asia has never been as generous and wholehearted as Germany's in Europe, and some Japanese diplomats still question whether criticism of their behaviour in China is wholly justified. For the record, it is. But China should beware allowing in her own country the growth of the sort of aggressive nationalism that set Japan off on its own militaristic path in the pre-war years. That nationalist sentiment also endangers cool thinking in China about how to handle Taiwan. America and Europe have to discourage Taiwan from provoking the mainland, for internal domestic reasons, through flirtations with the symbols of sovereign independence. On her side, China had better understand that, while it may not be a point that can be explicitly conceded, Taiwan's politi... (查看原文)

  霸王考拉 2022-12-30 23:11:27