送交者: hooah 于 2010-12-08, 13:35:08:
In one of the paragraphs … there are numerous appearances of ‘XXXXXXXXXXXX’.
Is this a person in China?
Who?
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U.s. Is the missing element
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繞5. (S)XXXXXXXXXXXX raised "The Red Cliff," a John Woo-directed
Beijing 00002964 002 of 005
movie about the Battle of Red Cliffs 1,801 years ago along
the banks of the Yangtze River, as a metaphor for the current
diplomatic situation with North Korea. At that time in
China, three states were in conflict. Two overmatched
southern states had joined forces to fight the
numerically-superior northern state. The two southern states
planned to use fire as a weapon to defeat the northern state,
but in order to do so, the southern states required an
easterly wind. The battle ensued in November, when the
prevailing winds normally came from the west. During the
battle, an easterly wind arrived, which enabled the southern
forces to use fire as a weapon to defeat the superior
northern forces. This story was an aphorism, XXXXXXXXXXXX
suggested. In the story, the southern forces had all of the
elements in place except for the crucial one -- the east wind
("dong feng"). The same was true with the Six-Party Talks.
There have been positive interactions among the parties to
the Talks, and the U.S. and China saw eye-to-eye on issues.
There was only one missing element: only the U.S. could
bring the east wind, XXXXXXXXXXXX declared.
XXXXXXXXXXXX rationale behind high-level visits to dprk