1. Spring Festival is that joyous time when parents and children are reunited and the bonds of parenthood reasserted.
2. Geng reasserted the Chinese stance that it would never use its military might to threaten neighbors.
3. Kong yesterday also reasserted China's sovereignty over Diaoyu Islands in the East China Sea.
4. Manouchehr Mottaki reasserted Tehran's right to peaceful nuclear technology and rejected demands that the nation end uranium enrichment.