links for 2007-02-28
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Nakagawa Shoichi “If something goes awry in Taiwan in the next 15 years, then within 20 years Japan might become just another one of China’s provinces.” … “If Taiwan comes under (China’s) complete rule, Japan could be next.”
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“It is meaningless to discuss just a part of the entire speech,” Abe told reporters. “It’s also been said in the past that Japan would become the 51st state of the United States.”
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“A group led by the state-run Japan Bank for International Cooperation and Chuo Mitsui Trust and Banking Co. has received the government go-ahead for emissions trading.”
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A Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson said China’s actions are consistent with its “peaceful rise” rhetoric, despite U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney’s recent statement to the contrary.
links for 2007-02-27
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Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney agreed Wednesday to boost the bilateral alliance and cooperate to resolve the issue of North Korea’s past abductions of Japanese citizens as a common matter of the two nations.
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“I must say that it is regrettable to see that when the Chinese people misread the world, they misread Japan most of all due to the special historical entanglements between China and Japan”
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“After a strong start, when he deftly used trips abroad to warm Japan’s icy relations with China and South Korea, Abe’s administration has succumbed to inertia, scandal and backbiting.”
links for 2007-02-01
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“The practice is perfectly legal but effectively allows the factories and the companies through which they trade carbon credits to make big profits. The eventual buyers of the credits are governments in developed countries…”
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From my colleagues at CAP: “Paulson could pave the way for green technology to become as successful a U.S. export to China as airplanes and software by striking an agreement with his Chinese counterpart to facilitate such transactions.”
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“U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson pledged on Wednesday to keep pushing China toward a more freely floating currency.” But he took it easy on Japan’s possibly undervalued yen.
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“The New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) and the Tokyo Stock Exchange have formed an alliance to develop financial products and promote mutual company listings.” Trying to cut costs.
