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As has happened before, the Taiwanese contestent for the Miss Universe pageant is not being allowed to be called Miss Taiwan. At the demand of the Chinese communists she had her name changed to Miss Chinese Taipei. Szu Yu Chen, competing in Miss Universe (news - web sites) as Miss Chinese Taipei, wipes away a tear as she tells journalists she wants to be known as Miss Taiwan, in Panama City, May 23, 2003. Panama is hosting the 2003 Miss Universe pagent, which has a television audience of 600 million viewers from 176 countries, on June 3. REUTERS/Alberto Lowe

<p>FBI Director Robert S. Mueller III has ordered an investigation to find out "what went wrong" inside the bureau's Chinese counterintelligence division that allowed a veteran Los Angeles agent to go undetected in his suspected delivery of classified information to a longtime lover, a Chinese double agent.</p>

TERRORISTS FOR DEMOCRACY, PART I By Gordon G. Chang Politics itself is immoral and dirty. We have to use immoral, dirty means to overthrow this regime. Then we can set up a moral and clean regime. --Peng Ming Peng Ming hopes to bring democracy to China, but he does not ask Beijing for the right to vote or even to speak as he pleases. The Hubei native is a revolutionary, and he will, if he gets his way, bring down the Communist Party by force. "We want to overthrow this regime--to grab complete power from them," he says. "We do...

BBC Monitoring International Reports December 6, 2002 LENGTH: 171 words HEADLINE: CHINA'S XIONG GUANGKAI LEADS MILITARY DELEGATION TO USA BODY: (New China News Agency) Beijing, 6 December: Xiong Guangkai, deputy chief of general staff of the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA), led a delegation to head for the United States Thursday 5 December afternoon. Xiong is to hold the fifth China-US consultations on defence at vice-defence ministerial level at the invitation of the US Department of Defence. During Chinese President Jiang Zemin's US tour last October, China and the United States agreed to resume military communication, including the defence consultations...

Zhu whips up storm in Hong KongBy Paul Lin ªL«OµØ Chinese Premier Zhu Rongji (¦¶Âè°ò) arrived in Hong Kong on Nov. 18 to host the opening ceremony of the 16th World Congress of Accountants. Following the meeting, he made some comments about Hong Kong that stirred up a storm. Since he has already announced his retirement, this trip may well have been his last as premier and thus his comments had the ring of parting words. Although they were made in earnest, he left people with the sense that he spoke recklessly. When Zhu met with managers of enterprises funded...