Taiwanese Mafia Boss died of liver cancer. At his funeral brought together big politicians, stars, gangsters...
On the streets gathered 20 thousand of local people.
Funeral ceremony of 108-mi black limousines, because 108 - an important figure in the Buddhist religion. Limousine followed by hundreds of expensive cars.
Mafia boss bequeathed $ 2 million to charity.
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President Obama seems to have dramatically revised US nuclear strategy by renouncing the first use of nuclear weapons. He also said the United States will never use nuclear weapons against non-nuclear states. But has American nuclear strategy really changed fundamentally? On the face of it the change in policy is substantial. But there are elements of the traditional US "carrot and stick" approach in the new policy. The declaration presents Iran with a clear choice: Only if it opens up its nuclear program to international inspection will it receive assurances it will not be subject to a nuclear first strike.
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Recently the Google incident has raised heated discussions. It all started with a blog post by Google's Senior Vice President & Chief Legal Consultant David Drummond on January 21, 2010. In the article titled "A new approach to China", Drummond claimed that Google detected "a targeted attack", which resulted in the theft of its intellectual property. He said that Google is "no longer willing to continue censoring the results on Google.cn, and so over the next weeks we (Google) will be discussing with the Chinese government the basis on which we could operate an unfiltered search engine within the law, if at all. We recognize that this may well mean having to shut down Google.cn, and potentially our offices in China." ...

The United States appears determined to surround China with anti-missile systems, military scholars have observed. According to Defense News, Taiwan became the fifth global buyer of the Patriot missile defense system last year following Japan, the Republic of Korea, the United Arab Emirates and Germany. Quite a few military experts have noted that Washington's latest proposed weapon deal with Taiwan is the key part of a US strategic encirclement of China in the East Asian region, ...

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