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Strategies & Market Trends : China Warehouse- More Than Crockery -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: RealMuLan who wrote (3242)	5/24/2004 1:23:40 PM
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China slaps U.S. over prisoner-abuse scandal in Iraq Frequently accused of human-rights abuses, the Chinese pointed to a "double standard." By Tim Johnson Inquirer Foreign Staff BEIJING - The scandal over U.S. abuse of prisoners in Iraq has given China a chance to disparage Washington's human-rights record, and it has done so with unreserved gusto. But even as Beijing takes swipes at Washington, the United States' broad troubles in Iraq are rippling across the region, unsettling a five-decade U.S. military alliance with South Korea, worrying trade partners in Southeast Asia, and hardening attitudes among Muslims around the Far East and South Asia. Seoul officials bemoaned the Pentagon's decision last week to move 3,600 U.S. troops from South Korea to Iraq, reducing troop presence on the Korean Peninsula by about a tenth. philly.com