Wishes for CAFIU

正It has become a habit of mine to drink tea and glance over the news on the website of CAFIU on every Saturday morning.The logo of CAFIU against the sky blue backdrop and the principle of"letting the world understand China and letting China understand the world"come to sight,which makes me feel that CAFIU is within a touching distance.Time and     

Trans-century Tendency for Japan

Since the end of the cold war,all previous Japanese governments had tried toformulate a trans—century national strategy by firstly initiating reforms of polit-ical and economic systems.However.various internal constrains had made it diffi-cult even to take the first step.The recent change of cabinet symbolized the "sixreforms" advocated by the Hashimoto government came to a deadlock.At least inthe rest of this century,any structural adjustments will have to make way for the     

Prospects for the Accord

Judging from the international circumstances and the balance of strength be-tween the forces for and against peace in the Middle East, the short-rangeobjective of the accord will be realized, i. e., limited self-government for the PLO.the reasons for this are as follows: 1. The international community, most Middle East countries and the majorityof Jews and Palestinians all support the accord. After the declaration of the conclu-sion of the accord, most member countries of the United Nations, including the     

Background for the Accord

The conclusion of the Israeli-PLO accord has deep-rooted international and do-mestic causes. 1. The international political circumstances have become favourable for peace-ful settlement of disputes. As a result of the disintegration of the former Soviet U-nion and the end of the Cold War, the rivalry between the two superpowers overthe Arab-Israeli dispute has ceased to be. The US and Russia have both changedtheir strategies for the Middle East from making use of local contradictions to join-     

Comments on Basic Approach for China’s Development for the Current Period

Since the birth of New China, the countryhas traversed a tortuous road of development.China’s socio-economic construction has seenremarkable achievements following the 20-oddyears of reform and opening up since the lateseventies of last century. At prese…     

Symposium on Prospects for European Unification

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The Best Way for China''''s Future

Lu:The situation China will face in the future will become moreand more complicated.We have more and more tasks to do,just as theChinese poem goes“As one enters the circle of thousands of mountains,one faces another mountain after passing by one of them.”Lookingfrom the international scene,none of the two issues of peace and devel-opment has been solved.Economic security and military security issues     

Where Is NATO Heading for?

A NATO summit was held on April 2-4 of this year in Bucharest, the capital of Romania. It was the last meeting the U.S. President George W. Bush attended in his presidential term. The outgoing Russian President A. Putin, also took part in the ＂NATO-Russia Council＂ meeting. Therefore, this summit attracted particular attention.     

CAFIU Program Rekindled My Love for China

In December 2010, I visited China with 9 Korean delegates. The theme of the program, 'Green Growth in China', was timely because at the time, Korea's Lee Administration was promoting the green industry through various government support in order to make it a new engine for economic growth.     

Nagano County Association for Japan-China Exchanges Founded

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Necessary Redefinition for Ridding “Difficulties“

As why Mr.Bush defeated Kerry and won the election,my fel-lows presented at the discussion today have covered all the points.HereI only have something to add.During the election in2004,American voters had no much choicesto make but to select people who could not make things worse.Theprevious public opinions polls demonstrated that voters were not so sat-isfied with both of the candidates and not trustful in them.During thepresidential campaign,neither Bush nor Kerry put forward some solu-ti…     

A Scenario for the 21st Century

Space prevents the author from going to detail.The following scenario is but abroad brush sketch: 1.Doubling the 2000 GNP in a decade(2001-2010)with the initial marketmechanism established.These will be the pivotal years for the transition period in     

Aim at the Future for Common Development

At the invitation of the Socialist Party of Bulgaria and the Friedrich-Ebert Stiftung(FES) of Germany, CAFIU delegation headed by Mr. Zhou Tienong, Vice-Chairman of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference(CPPCC) and Vice-President of CAFIU…     

The Prospect for Sino-American Relations in 2007

Whither Sino-American relations in 2007? This is one of the focal questions for many Chinese. In my opinion, we can predict the developments of Sino-American relations in 2007 from the changes that happened to the bilateral relations in 2006. According to quantitative analysis, one of the prominent features of Sino-American relations in 2006 is that the relations are     

Joint Efforts for Future of the New Century

The 21st century has already set its sail. The people all over the world have the expectation that the new century will bring about universal peace and common prosperity to humanity. The 20th century which has just passed shows that human civilization is always in the process of progress and evolution. Achievements in science and technology made in the 20th century will further improve the life quality of the people, the in-depth economic relations between the various countries have created co…     

New Orientation for ROK-U.S.Alliance

T he current ROK-U.S. relationship can be well described as “being neither warm nor cold”. It was not long before that the United States and South Korea shared weal and woe and had an unusual relationship. The United States provided ROK not only with mi…