Moscow Wants to Learn from Beijing

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Clifford J. Levy, In Chinese Communist Party, Russia's Ruler See a Role Model for Governing. New York Times, Oct. 18, 2009.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/18/world/europe/18russia.html?_r=1

My comment: The above report is probably inspired by

普京领导的俄罗斯执政党向中共取经. VOA Chinese, Oct. 10, 2009.
http://www1.voanews.com/chinese/news/china/RUSSIA-CHINA-PARTIES-101009-63920272.html

Note: 绥芬 being Manchu language for an awl 锥子, 绥芬河 is the name of a river originating in Heilongjiang that empties near Vladivostok 海参崴, Russia, into Sea of Japan. The river is the namesake of a city 绥芬河市 (位于中华人民共和国黑龙江省东南部，是牡丹江市所属的一个县级市).


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(1) 热比娅现身法兰克福书展. BBC Chinese, Oct. 18, 2009.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/zhongwen/simp/china/2009/10/091018_rebya_frankfurt_bookfair.shtml
("18日出席德国法兰克福书展的一场研讨会，其间走访中国馆和台湾馆")

My comment: Very provocative.

(2) 釣島之爭 日媒憂台、中聯手抗日. 中央社, Oct. 18, 2009.
http://libertytimes.com/2009/new/oct/19/today-fo1-3.htm
(appearing in Liberty Times, Oct. 19, 2009)

My comment: The report is an abridgment of

山本勲, 東亜春秋: 漁業が日台の“アキレス腱.” 産経新聞, Oct. 18, 2009.
http://sankei.jp.msn.com/politics/policy/091018/plc0910180244003-n1.htm

The last sentence of paragraph 1 states, "日台の緊密な関係が漁業紛争で壊されないよう、双方が一段の知恵を絞る必要がある。"  The translation is: Please do not let fishing dispute spoil the close Japan-Taiwan  relationship; both parties need to rack their brains further [to find a solution]." (一段: still more; 絞る: to wring, to press)

(3) 唐在馨, 馬胡心結 不能馬虎. Liberty Times, Oct. 19, 2009.
http://libertytimes.com/2009/new/oct/19/today-p4-2.htm

My comment: Whether there is anything going on between the president and Mayor Jason Hu of City of Taichung, I do not know. But it is undisputed that the mayor is very popular, at least in that city if not in the entire Taiwan. I simply do not understand why.

(4) 王丰, 蔣經國另一個兒子邱明山之謎. 亞洲周刊 (Yazhou Zhoukan), Oct. 25, 2009 (cover date).
http://www.yzzk.com/cfm/Content_Archive.cfm?Channel=ac&Path=2222564742/42ae1a.cfm

My comment: I am sort of in doubt. Can't he be an orphan who the Chiangs took in? Anyway, a DNA test will tell.

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