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Indian intelligence personnel ran afoul of Chinese security forces inside territory claimed by both countries. While it is true that such incidents are common and serious clashes no longer occur, the decades-old border dispute remains an emotional issue for Indians, and the Chinese are doing little to help matters. - </font><strong><font color="#000000">Sultan Shahin <font color="#999999" size="1">(Jul 31, '03)</font> </font><br><br>THE ABDUCTION OF MODERNITY</strong></font> <br><a href="/web/20030801075539/http://www.atimes.com/atimes/China/EH01Ad01.html"><strong>Part 4: Taoism and modernity</strong></a> <br>To Taoists, modernity is a meaningless concept because truth is timeless and life goes in circles. In post-modern thinking in the West, much of the awareness that Taoists have entertained for centuries is just now surfacing. - </font><strong><font color="#000000">Henry C K Liu <font color="#999999" size="1">(Jul 31, '03)</font></font><br><br><img hspace="0" src="/web/20030801075539im_/http://www.atimes.com/atimes//images/bestofbe4[1].gif" border="0"><br><br>TWO CENTS' WORTH</strong></font> <br> <a href="/web/20030801075539/http://www.atimes.com/atimes/China/EG31Ad02.html"><strong>Realism finds new champions</strong></a> <br> In the wake of protests in Hong Kong against a proposed anti-subversion law, US observers are suddenly exhibiting neutral respect for historical facts about the territory, and are at the same time adopting a pragmatic view of Taiwan's relations with the mainland. <strong>Henry C K Liu</strong> doubts Hong Kong Democrats, or pro-independence Taiwanese politicians, will follow suit. <font color="#999999" size="1">(Jul 30, '03)</font><br><br><a href="/web/20030801075539/http://www.atimes.com/atimes/China/EG30Ad01.html "><strong>SARS forgotten - for now</strong></a> <br> Beijing has officially ended its SARS prevention efforts. Chinese are spitting and littering the way they used to before they had ever heard of the virus. The conditions are ripe for the epidemic that rocked China to return for another go. <font color="#999999" size="1">(Jul 29, '03)</font> <br><br><a href="/web/20030801075539/http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Korea/EG26Dg01.html"><strong>Korean War: The problem of memory</strong></a><br>This Sunday marks the 50th anniversary of the end of the "police action" in Korea that killed about 2 million people. Though remarkably little has been written in half a century about this brutal conflict, its effects are far-reaching - and its inconclusive conclusion, combined with selective memories in Washington and Tokyo, threatens peace to this day. - <b>Yu Bin <font color="#999999" size="1">(Jul 25, '03)</font> </b><br></font><br><a href="/web/20030801075539/http://www.atimes.com/atimes/China/EG26Ad02.html"><strong><font size="2">Is Taiwan hollowing out?</font></strong></a><font size="2"><font color="#000000"> <br>Despite lackluster macroeconomic performance, Taiwan's manufacturers are likely to keep the island dynamic. Their R&D is producing the world's fourth-largest number of applications at the US Patent Office. - <strong>John Berthelsen </strong><font color="#999999" size="1">(Jul 25, '03)</font><br></font></font><br><strong>THE ABDUCTION OF MODERNITY</strong></font> <br><a href="/web/20030801075539/http://www.atimes.com/atimes/China/EG24Ad01.html"><strong>Part 3: Rule of law vs Confucianism</strong></a> <br>The rule of law has been touted by Western scholars as a central aspect of modernity. According to that measure, since the rule of law was the basis of the first unification of China in the 2nd century BC, modernity occurred 23 centuries ago in China. -<b>Henry C K Liu</b> <font color="#999999" size="1">(Jul 23, '03)</font> <br><br><a href="/web/20030801075539/http://www.atimes.com/atimes/China/EG24Ad02.html"><strong>The case for missile defense</strong></a><br>Would a missile defense system be good or bad for Asia? The Atlantic Council of the US sent a panel of experts to the region to find out, and they came back with a cautious, tentative "yes". But that overall, regional answer is very much complicated by specific national concerns. - <b>David Isenberg</b> <font color="#999999" size="1">(Jul 23, '03)</font><br><br><a href="/web/20030801075539/http://www.atimes.com/atimes/China/EG22Ad02.html "><strong>HK demonstrates the power of persistence</strong></a><br>This month's demonstrations in Hong Kong have proved that, just as important as a large turnout, demonstrators must be persistent in applying pressure to effect policy change. - <strong>Phar Kim Beng</strong> <font color="#999999" size="1">(Jul 21, '03)</font></font></font> <b>  </b></font></font></font></font> </p> </td> </tr> </table> </td> <td valign="top" width="36%"> <table width="184" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td height="51" align="middle" valign="center"> <p align="left"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20030801075539/http://www.atimes.com/atimes/search.asp" target="_blank"><img hspace="0" 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