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The perennial problem in Sino-U.S. relations, U.S. arms sales to Taiwan, has stolen newspaper headlines again.

On this 10th anniversary of the terrorist attacks of September 11th, 2001, we remember that 9/11 was not only an attack on the United States, it was an attack o