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| Beijing Bones up its Cyber-Warfare Capacity While the furor over cyber attacks against Google has lapsed somewhat, the Sino-American confrontation over the larger issue of Internet security and global digital warfare is expected to intensify in the near future. This is particularly in light of the deterioration of bilateral ties due to issues ranging from the value of the renminbi to U.S. arms sales to Taiwan. Even more significant is the fact that despite Washington’s criticism of Beijing’s censorship of the Internet—as well as China-originated sorties against the networks of American government agencies and multinationals—the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) leadership is devoting unprecedented resources to strengthening its already formidable cyber warfare prowess. | ||
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| New Strains in the U.S.-China-Taiwan Strategic Triangle The triangular security relationship between the United States, China and Taiwan is under strain again. The January 29 announcement of the $6.4 billion U.S. arms sales package to Taiwan marks a low point, but no major change in direction, for a U.S.-China relationship that began a downward spiral months ago. While not likely to cause bilateral relations to nosedive, the arms package does add another dip to a recently bumpy ride attributable to a host of issues ranging from Copenhagen 2009, the Iranian nuclear impasse to the Google debacle. What the analytical tendency toward political factors tends to overlook, however, is the tectonics of the economic reshaping of the U.S.-China-Taiwan strategic triangle over recent years, trends accelerated sharply by the conditions of the global recession throughout 2009. | ||
| Fei Tian Academy of the Arts to Open Campus in San Francisco SAN FRANCISCO—Fei Tian Academy of the Arts, a premier arts school based in New York which offers world-class training in dance, music, and fine arts, will be opening an additional campus in San Francisco on March 1, 2010. | ||
| Food Tip: Keeping Ginger Fresh During the winter months ginger is great for flavoring winter vegetable soups such as carrot and sweet potato. It is very warming and often helps to settle the stomach if you are suffering from nausea or vomitin | ||
| The Paradise Beyond Peach Blossoms Myths and legends keep alive the hope that a perfect world is somewhere beyond the next mountain peak, across the ocean or through a narrow crevice. Plato described the mythic continent of Atlantis as if it had actually existed. In modern times, James Hilton wrote “Shangri-La” based on a mystical city of Tibetan Buddhism. And as C.S. Lewis said, we’d all like to think there was a magical wardrobe in our house. | ||
| Sweet and Sour Tofu with Ohitashi Spinach Ohitashi spinach is a popular dish in Japan it literally means something soaked or drenched in liquid. The liquid in this case is shoyu, a naturally brewed soya sauce. Sometimes mirin and a sprinkling of bonito flakes, the curly fish flakes that look like wood shavings, are added. | ||
| Acupuncture and Chinese Medicine for Mental Health Chinese medicine is a complete system of healing that first appeared in written form around 100 B.C. China, Japan, Korea, and Vietnam have since developed their own distinct versions of the original Chinese system. Chinese medicine describes human physiology and psychology in terms of qi, a vital energy that circulates through energy channels called meridians. Chinese medicine uniquely relates specific mental and physical functioning to corresponding meridians. | ||
| The Relationship Between Kindness and the Chinese Fan | ||
| Ancient Ways of Conduct At the time between the Song Dynasty and the Yuan Dynasty, there was an erudite scholar. His birth name was Heng Xu (1209 - 1281AD), his stylized name was Zhong Ping, and his nickname was Lu Zhai. During his lifetime, he took upholding Confucian principles and passing on the Chinese traditions as his responsibility. He published the book Lu Zhai Yi Shu. | ||
| Common Illnesses of Women There are a group of clinical conditions that commonly affect women. They include migraine, depression, insomnia, irritable bowel syndrome, fibromyalgia, PMS, and chronic fatigue syndrome. There is also a common thread through these illnesses when they are examined from the perspective of ancient Chinese medicine. In this paradigm, such conditions very often have a similar energy imbalance involving the wood element, which manifests in the liver and gall bladder meridians, one of the many energy networks in the human body. | ||
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