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US seeks to work with China in SE Asia
MATTHEW PENNINGTON | May 31
WASHINGTON — The United States wants to work more closely with China in Southeast Asia despite the two powers’ competition for influence in the region, a top U.S. official said Tuesday.
The United States irked China last year by asserting that Washington had a [...]
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- Edmund S. Phelps
Edmund Phelps, the 2006 Nobel laureate in economics, is the founding director of the Center on Capitalism and Society at Columbia University. This article first appeared in Le Monde.
NEW YORK – The young protesters of the Jasmine Revolutions of Tunisia and Egypt, many of them university graduates, overthrew the [...]
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- Naomi Wolf
Naomi Wolf is a political activist and social critic whose most recent book is Give Me Liberty: A Handbook for American Revolutionaries.
NEW YORK – It is impossible to hear about sexual or sex-crime scandals nowadays – whether that involving Dominique Strauss-Kahn or those of former New York Governor Eliot Spitzer, Italian [...]
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8,000 people to be displaced by European-Chinese dam project in Burma
Military authorities in Burma have ordered 8,000 people to move from their homes in preparation for a hydroelectric dam being constructed by European [...]
Posted in WORLD Digest on May 30th, 2011 No Comments »
- Shahid Javed Burki
Shahid Javed Burki, former Finance Minister of Pakistan and Vice President of the World Bank, is currently Chairman of the Institute of Public Policy, Lahore.
ISLAMABAD – Large events sometimes have unintended strategic consequences. This is turning out to be the case following the killing of Osama bin Laden [...]
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- Christopher Hill
Christopher R. Hill, a former US Assistant Secretary of State for East Asia, was US Ambassador to Iraq, South Korea, Macedonia, and Poland, US special envoy for Kosovo, a negotiator of the Dayton Peace Accords, and chief US negotiator with North Korea from 2005-2009. He is now Dean of [...]
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- Ian Buruma
Ian Buruma is Professor of Democracy and Human Rights at Bard College, and the author of Taming the Gods: Religion and Democracy on Three Continents.
NEW YORK – Ratko Mladi? is an easy man to hate. In his prime, he not only talked and behaved like a thug, but he also looked like [...]
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Suu Kyi plans tour of Myanmar countryside in June
KELVIN CHAN | May 30, 2011 08:33 AM EST | AP
HONG KONG — Myanmar pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi said Monday she plans to tour the country next month in her first trip into the provinces since a 2003 political tour ended in her lengthy house [...]
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AFP – US lawmakers seek to extend Myanmar sanctions
Monsters and Critics – US Senator John McCain to meet Myanmar opposition leader
PTI – China to build rail line to Myanmar, pact for USD 763 mil aid
IANS – Explosives meant for Myanmar seized
Xinhua – China’s Chery Auto to set up plant in Myanmar
Xinhua [...]
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- Jeffrey Frankel
Jeffrey Frankel is Professor of Capital Formation and Growth at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government.
CAMBRIDGE – Every time the International Monetary Fund awaits a new managing director, critics complain that it is past time for the appointee to come from an emerging-market country. But whining won’t change the unjust [...]
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Asian Correspondent – Can China stop war between Burma and Kachin?
AFP – Myanmar president arrives in China
CP – China fetes Myanmar president, conferring legitimacy and ensuring access to resources
Xinhua – China, Myanmar forge partnership, ink deals on Myanmar president’s maiden visit
The Record Searchlight – Run to help the oppressed in Burma
People’s [...]
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CHRISTOPHER BODEEN | May 27, 2011 07:46 AM EST |
BEIJING — China bestowed a pomp-filled welcome on Myanmar’s president Friday, conferring legitimacy on the country’s new, nominally civilian government and ensuring continued Chinese access to its neighbor’s natural resources.
The state visit is Thein Sein’s first since Myanmar installed its new government in March, [...]
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- Stephen S. Roach
Stephen S. Roach, a member of the faculty at Yale University, is Non-Executive Chairman of Morgan Stanley Asia and author of The Next Asia.
NEW HAVEN – The China doubters are back in force. They seem to come in waves – every few years, or so. Yet, year in and year out, [...]
Posted in WORLD Digest on May 26th, 2011 No Comments »
- Gareth Evans
Gareth Evans, former Australian Foreign Minister, was co-chair of the International Commission on Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Disarmament (www.icnnd.org), and is Convenor of the Asia Pacific Leadership Network (www.a-pln.org).
LONDON – One of the most dispiriting features of today’s international debates is that the threat to humanity posed by the world’s 23,000 nuclear [...]
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- Yoon Young-kwan
Yoon Young-kwan, South Korea’s foreign minister in 2003-2004, is currently Professor of International Relations at Seoul National University.
SEOUL – Like many regions of the world, Northeast Asia faces severe political challenges in creating a viable structure of peace. But, given China’s rising power, such a regional structure is becoming [...]
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- Franco Frattini
Franco Frattini, Italy’s minister of foreign affairs, was EU Commissioner for Justice, Freedom and Security.
ROME – US President Barack Obama’s major speech on the consequences of the Arab Spring is also a challenge for Europe. Only if the trans-Atlantic partnership proves effective, as it did to meet the demands of [...]