Japan Times: Perhaps it was due to the fever of impending flu, or the arctic winds rattling our Tokyo home, but recent media photos of Beijing`s thick smog suddenly brought to mind thoughts of the late U.S. president, John F. Kennedy.
On June 26, 1963, Kennedy delivered his most famous Cold War speech to reassure the people of Germany that the United States would not abandon the citizens of West Berlin.
By then, those citizens had been encircled by the 155-km-long Berlin Wall erected by the German Democratic...