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Harvey Stockwin
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 21, 2000
MacArthur's audacious landing at Inchon astounded everyone -- except Mao
HONG KONG -- Sept. 15 was the 50th anniversary of the famous Inchon amphibious landing by U.S. forces under Gen. Douglas MacArthur, which so decisively turned the tide of battle in the early stages of the Korean War.
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 9, 2000
Historical irony haunts Chinese uprising
HONG KONG -- Last March 8, the Chinese government executed a former vice governor of the southeast province of Jiangxi, in the hope that this would demonstrate its determination to act against corrupt and oppressive officials.
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 13, 2000
Rash media prolonging hostage crises
HONG KONG -- Recent hostage crises in Fiji and Sulu have been made more protracted by unprincipled journalism.
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 1, 2000
East Asia feels impact of the Putin effect
HONG KONG — As Russian President Vladimir Putin cut a swath through East Asia recently, visiting China, North Korea, Japan and the Russian Far East in a breathless seven days, he gave plenty of indications of the ways in which Russia is likely to change under his leadership.
COMMENTARY / World
Jun 24, 2000
Korean summit remains a blank sheet
HONG KONG -- Perhaps it is in the nature of joint declarations that their merits tend to be exaggerated. The British did it with their joint declaration with China regarding Hong Kong, the Indians did it with their joint declaration with Pakistan at Lahore. Now the South Koreans, plus many foreigners...
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 14, 1999
Megawati has lost her way
HONG KONG -- Indonesia faces a more profound immediate national crisis than India or Japan -- but all three face the same basic political problem: They badly need an effective ruling coalition. In New Delhi and Tokyo, a coalition government is in place. In Jakarta, it isn't.
COMMENTARY / World
Jul 4, 1999
Promise of autonomy fades in Hong Kong
HONG KONG -- Right from the start, the current legal and political case concerning "right of abode" in Hong Kong has been a journalist's nightmare. Highly complex, profoundly nuanced, and containing contradictory strands, the case was impervious to easy simplification. Both sides to the dispute could...
COMMENTARY / World
Jun 4, 1999
Both sides to blame for Sino-U.S. troubles
HONG KONG -- As the United States debates the security implications of the Cox report on Chinese spying in the U.S., and as China continues to deny the spying and to denounce the NATO attack on the Chinese Embassy in Belgrade, it is easy to lose sight of a basic reality: There is a remarkable symmetry...

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