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1. Soaring food prices and global grain shortages are bringing new pressures on goverments, food companies and consumers to relax their lontstanding resistance to genetically engineered crops.
* south korea have begun buying genetically modified corn for use in soft drinks, snacks and other foods.

2. After a wave of anti-french protests in CHina , President Nicolas Sarkozy of France is sending three top officials there this week in a diplomatic charm offensive aimed at limiting the political and economic fallout from the controversy surrounding the prepararion of the Olympic Games.

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1. China's new nationalists revealed
    ex) witch-hunting occurred at Duke university ->20year old freshman from mainland China tried to encourage dialogue between a large groupe of Chines student demonstrators and a smaller groupe of Tibetans ... (She and Her parents were threatened and had to to into hiding for their own safety)

crucial distinction - healthy,constructive nationalism vs pathological variety like Hitler

Neverthless, the nationalistic vehemence that has come into view this spring among China's best and bringhtest is a troubling phenomenon.
It suggests that natonalism has replaced Maoism or Marxism as the legitmating credo of China rulers -  and that the critical
spirit defining the Tiananmen protests of 1989 has given way in some quarters to an emotional identification with the ancient idols of blood and soil.

from IHT