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To: TobagoJack who wrote (4851)	6/12/2001 1:44:16 PM
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>>Taiwan ignores huge war games - Beijing trumpets scale of military might in build-up to main exercises later this month<< china.scmp.com >>Alarm sounded as sixth cholera case confirmed<< hongkong.scmp.com >>Shenyang, Liaoning province, has been hit by its worst drought in a century, according to China News Service. Water for farm use has shrunk 80 per cent in Tianjin, the fifth consecutive year the municipality has suffered severe drought, Xinhua reported. Grain production is expected to be down 10 per cent in the municipality. Even in Inner Mongolia, which is usually a summer retreat, temperatures are two to seven degrees Celsius higher than average. In many places there is a shortage of water for both human and animal consumption.<< china.scmp.com >>Manila says headless bodies are not U.S. citizens One source close to the family of one of the hostages, who declined to be identified, told Reuters that the Abu Sayyaf had let some of their captives use the rebels' satellite phones to call home and ask for ransom. << Globalstar, Iridium, or what? breakingnews.scmp.com >>American majority believes China a 'serious problem' REUTERS in New York Updated at 7.58am: Most Americans see China as a serious problem for US foreign policy while about one in five view Beijing as an adversary, according to a Council on Foreign Relations survey released overnight (HK time). Forty-six per cent of the respondents to the survey thought US President George W. Bush was taking the right approach toward Beijing, while 51 per cent said they supported Bush's plans to build a national missile defence, compared with 38 per cent who said they were against the idea. Some 51 per cent of respondents saw China as a serious problem and 19 per cent saw China as an adversary. Morton Halperin, a senior fellow at the council, said that while most respondents noted that relations between Washington and Beijing have been strained of late, the number of people who view China as a major threat has not changed much over the past two years. ''Slightly fewer Americans describe China as a major threat now than did so in July 1999,'' Mr Halperin said. ''Most Americans recognise that relations are getting worse, but this has not altered their view of the threat nor of how trade-offs should be made among objectives.'' Only 21 per cent of respondents viewed China as becoming more democratic while 62 per cent rejected that notion. Some 34 per cent said China was becoming more free-market oriented as opposed to 47 per cent who did not think so. On the tense issue of Taiwan-Beijing relations, 64 per cent of respondents said the United States should not commit itself to defending Taiwan while 26 per cent said Washington should pledge to defend the island republic. On missile defence, respondents by an overwhelming 77 per cent to 10 per cent margin, expressed greater concern about a terrorist bringing weapons into the United States than about the possibility of a missile attack by an unfriendly nation. Some 53 per cent said treaties aimed at restricting the arms race offered the nation the best protection while 34 per cent said Mr Bush's proposed missile shield would offer the best protection. The survey was conducted May 15-28 through telephone interviews with 1,468 adults, with margin of error of plus or minus 3 per cent.<< china.scmp.com