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As the U.S. and China careen toward an increasingly adversarial relationship, a national security question looms: Can our country maintain leadership developing, using and deploying key technologies such as 5G, artificial intelligence and robotics? One important drama playing out in U.S. District Court in San Jose will help answer that question for 5G, the foundation of many other new technologies, in which the Sino-American contest is proxied by corporate entities - Huawei for China and San Diego-based Qualcomm for the United States. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The author applauds China's successful organization of the 2008 Olympics but contends that so much more is needed so that China can gain international respect. He faults the nation for a lack in moral strength despite its economic progress and military status. The author emphasizes the necessity of an ethical leadership which stresses the importance of respect for truthfulness, tolerance, and the right of the people to disagree with the government.

Reports on the increasing number of universities in the United States that launched summer reading programs for college freshmen. Features of summer reading programs; Aims of the programs; Books commonly chosen for summer reading projects; Benefits provided by the programs to college freshmen.

Presents information on a report release by Human Rights Watch/Asia, which offers a look into an important part of China's `socialist' welfare system. Statistics on babies placed in orphanages; What orphanage record on death rate shows; Causes of death; Why the Chinese government condemned the report.

Opinion. Discusses the policies of China, as it relates to children, focusing on the Shanghai Children's Welfare Institute. What a report by the Human Rights Watch/Asia in New York disclosed about the mortality rate of infants at the facility; Number of children a family is allowed to have; Reason for this; Findings of the report by the group; Implications of this report for China.

Focuses on the foreign relations between the United States and China in August 1995. Effects of China's domestic politics on its international relations; Creation of instability due to the nature of its government; Description of China's mind-set; China's need of a scapegoat for the collapse of communism within its boundaries.

Reports that the government of the People's Republic of China, stepped up surveillance on a number of things, and tightened security on universities and campuses and Tiananmen Square. Fears of Communist Party leaders; What impel individuals in the need to come to grips with tragedy.