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Presents news briefs, compiled in the week of March 6, 2000. Includes car bomb explosion perpetrated by Basque separatists in Vitoria, Spain; Pope John Paul II's appeal during a visit to Egypt; China's policy paper warning Taiwan of invasion if the island delays reunification talks.

Reports that United States policymakers believe that threats of military action by Beijing, China against Taiwan and delivered to the US and others is an effort to pressure Washington to lean harder on Taiwan President Lee Teng-Hui, as of August 23, 1999. Details and risks of the psychological warfare; Reasons for it.

Focuses on the relations between the United States, considered the world's sole remaining superpower, and China, the sole up-and-coming superpower. The lastest rupture triggered by China's warning to Taiwan that it must remain committed to eventual reunification; Why China is one of America's top foreign-policy challenges; Assertion that in the mid-1990s China lacks the military capability to successfully invade a well-defended Taiwan.