Month: January 2018

Trial Over Theft of Wind Technology Spotlights U.S.-China Tensions – WSJ

By Erin Ailworth Jan. 6, 2018 7:00 a.m. ET 21 COMMENTS “A dispute over the alleged theft of wind-turbine technology is slated to go to trial in Wisconsin on Monday in a test case for intellectual-property battles between the U.S. and China. Federal prosecutors accuse Chinese wind-turbine maker Sinovel Wind Group Co. Ltd. of stealing …

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Opinion | The Beatles of Vietnam – Vietnam ’67 – NYT

Published by David Lindsay ·from the New York Times “As so many rock ’n’ roll stories do, the CBC Band’s began with the purchase of a guitar behind the back of a disapproving father. When he was a young child in Vietnam, Tung Linh wanted a guitar, so his mother bought one for him. His father, Phan …

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Is Hong Kong Really Part of China? – by Yi-Zheng Lian – NYT

HONG KONG — One could say that long before 1997, the year that Britain handed Hong Kong back to China, the leaders of the city’s major pro-democracy parties had come to a tacit understanding with the Chinese government. The pan-dems, as these politicians are known here, would support the absorption of Hong Kong into a …

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Was America Duped at Khe Sanh? – The New York Times

In late 1967, Giap concentrated some 40,000 soldiers in the hills of northwest South Vietnam and orchestrated a series of assaults on a string of American combat bases in the highlands, not far from a Marine base called Khe Sanh, which the North besieged in January 1968. Giap later called these attacks a “diversion” to …

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