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Coexistence And Commerce: Guidelines For Transactions Between East And West, Stanley B. Lubman

Hong Yen Chang Center for Chinese Legal Studies

For all the talk in this country in recent years about improving relations between the United States and Communist nations – "building bridges" and the like-old stereotypes of West and East, Us and Them, linger on. The Cold War mentality dies hard: East-West relations remain symbolized by signs of separation and antagonism such as the Berlin Wall and the lonely bridge at Lowu where travelers cross between Hong Kong and China. Such images, and the stereotyped habits of thought associated with them, are especially dangerous in a time characterized by neither war nor peace, but by a mixture of both. …