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(1) Andrew Higgins, In Taiwan Military, Chinese Spy Stirs Unease. Washington Post, Sept 27, 2011
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia-pacific/in-taiwan-military-chinese-spy-stirs-unease/2011/09/20/gIQA9aYm2K_story.html
(the espionage went on seven years; Taiwan’s government was tipped off about Lo’s double game by the United States; FBI had tried to turn Lo and recruit him as a double agent;  

Note:
(a) Kuanshan  台東縣 關山鎮
(b) York CHEN 陳 文政 (assistant professor at Tamkang University’s Graduate Institute of International Affairs and Strategic Studies)
(c) Tiehlin YEN  閻 鐵麟

(2) Robert D Kaplan, A Power Shift in Asia. Washington Post, Sept 23, 2011
http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/a-power-shift-in-asia/2011/09/23/gIQAhIdjrK_story.html

My comment:
(a) The op-ed stated, "But the upgrades reportedly do not include the new engines necessary for added speed." But The Obama administration made the announcement on Sept 21 that included new engines.
(b) I am a free trader, so I disagree to the extent China-Taiwan trade will tilt the relationship one way or the other.

(3) Nancy McKeon, Turning Embassies into Treasured Homes; Home & Design. Washington Post Magazine, Sept 22, 2011.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/magazine/foreign-exchange/2011/08/31/gIQAza8LoK_story.html

Note:
(a) WU Ting-fang 伍 廷芳 (1842-1922)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wu_Ting-fang

wife  HO Miu-ling (Cantonese) /HE Miaoling (Mandarin)  何 妙齡

(b)chancery (n): "the office of an embassy : CHANCELLERY"
www.m-w.com
(c) legation (n):
"2: a body of deputies sent on a mission; specifically : a diplomatic mission in a foreign country headed by a minister
3: the official residence and office of a diplomatic minister in a foreign country"
(d) Queen Anne style architecture
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen_Anne_style_architecture
(What is called the "Queen Anne style" in other parts of the English-speaking world, especially the United States and Australia, is completely different' section 2 American Queen Anne style)
(e) Kalorama, Washington, D.C.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalorama,_Washington,_D.C.
(In 1807, the noted poet Joel Barlow bought the property and renamed it "Kalorama," which translates from Greek as "fine view.")
(f) palazzo
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palazzo
(g) For banister, see baluster
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baluster
(section 4 Banisters)
(h) Jacobean (adj; Latin Jacobus James):
"of, relating to, or characteristic of James I of England or his age"

Tudor Dynsaty or House of Tudor lasted from 1485 to 1603, when Elizabeth I diedchildless and James I was coronated.
(i) assemblage (n): "a collection of persons or things"
(j) Footnotes from photo gallery:
* credenza (n; Italian, literally, belief, confidence, from Medieval Latin credentia): "a sideboard, buffet, or bookcase patterned after a Renaissance credence; especially : one without legs"
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/credenza
(illustration)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Credenza

* joist (n): "any of the small timbers or metal beams ranged parallel from wall to wall in a structure to support a floor or ceiling"

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/joist
(illustration)

* For "French door," see door
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Door
(double-leaf door or double doors and French doors that have two adjacent independent panels hinged on each side of the doorway)

, which is the common door we see every day, in US and elsewhere--as opposed to  single-leaf door.


(4) John Pomfret, Book review: ‘Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China,’ by Ezra F. Vogel. Washington Post, Sept 10, 2011.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/books/book-review-deng-xiaoping-and-the-transformation-of-china-by-ezra-f-vogel/2011/08/26/gIQAfTD6FK_story.html

Quote:

"He {Deng] used younger officials such as Hu Yaobang and Zhao Ziyang for that. (He ended up sacrificing both.) In fact, as Vogel reports, Deng wasn’t even at the forefront of some of the most important political and economic moves — such as the 1976 arrest of the Gang of Four, including Mao’s widow, Jiang Qing, and the decision to launch market-oriented special economic zones in the south that became hothouses for capitalist-style experimentation.


"While Mao opened China to the West as a way to counter the Soviet Union, Deng realized that American and Japanese technology, investment and knowledge would be keys to his country’s advance. They were. Indeed, no nation has been more important to China’s modernization than the United States — a fact that no Chinese official has ever acknowledged.

My comment:
(a) I commend Mr Pomfret. A month ago, I browsed the new book, which broke no new grouond to a China hand like me. Mr Pomfret enlivened an essentially boring book.
(b) "Twenty-six years ago" was 1985, when US wooed China against Russia. That was then, this is now.
(c) The review said one of Deng's sons "leaped from an interrogation-room window, paralyzing himself from the neck down."

It is known that Deng Pufang uses a wheelchair, becoming a paraplegic (paralyzed from waist down).
(d) I met Mr Vogel a few times in 1995, 1996. He had a great expectation of China, saying to me, a stranger from Taiwan, that Taiwan could not resisit the pull of China or isolate it economically, much as US had done to Cuba--"because China is too big." In early 1990s, Taiwan's economy was a third of China's (but a fifteenth at present, according ot foreign exchange rate).


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