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May 7, 2008
Mitt Romney interviewed by Jayshree Bajoria, Staff Writer
Interview
Mitt Romney, president and CEO of the organizing committee for the Salt Lake City Winter Olympics in 2002, says China should take “symbolic action” to let the world know it is willing to listen to their concerns about its human rights record.
See more in Democracy and Human Rights, Human Rights, Society and Culture
May 5, 2008
| Author: | Kishore Mahbubani |
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Must Read
Kishore Mahbubani, dean of the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy in Singapore, writes in an essay that the Chinese view on the protests over Tibet and the Olympic torch is different from that of western leaders. The reality is that virtually all of the Chinese believe that the Western protests have had little to do with human rights, Tibet or Darfur. "Instead, the Chinese think, the West's real motivation is to deny China the triumph it deserves for its enormous successes."
See more in Sovereignty
April 25, 2008
Podcast
A preview of world events in the coming week from CFR.org and The Economist.
See more in Economics, Climate Change
April 23, 2008
| Author: | Jayshree Bajoria, Staff Writer |
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Backgrounder
Nationalism in China, surging amid protests over Beijing's rule in Tibet, increasingly fills the role Maoism played before China embraced capitalism.
See more in Nationalism
April 23, 2008
Edward Friedman, Professor of Political Science, University of Wisconsin, Madison interviewed by Bernard Gwertzman, Consulting Editor
Interview
Edward Friedman, an expert on Chinese nationalism, says China’s ethnic Han majority views minorities like Tibetans and Uighurs as "people who should be incorporated into the larger Chinese state."
See more in Taiwan, East Asia, Minorities, Diversity and Foreign Policy, Nationalism
April 16, 2008
| Author: | Jayshree Bajoria, Staff Writer |
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Backgrounder
China has a range of options for its citizens to access justice, but experts say none of them are particularly effective.
See more in Nation Building
Updated: April 17, 2008
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Daily Analysis
As the Bush administration presses for greater economic pressure to curb Iran’s nuclear ambitions, Tehran is turning east for economic survival.
See more in Russian Fed., Iran, Energy/Environment, Proliferation
April 15, 2008
Essential Documents
Statement
April 21, 2008
| Author: | Fareed Zakaria, Editor, Newsweek International |
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Must Read
Newsweek's Fareed Zakaria argues that public humiliation does not work nearly as well on the regime in Beijing as private pressure.
See more in Nationalism
April 14, 2008
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Daily Analysis
Beijing’s hunger for commodities has brought a trade boom with Australia and New Zealand, but protectionist concerns could block further liberalization.
See more in Australasia and the Pacific, Economics, Trade
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Iraq (5/8): Mohamad Bazzi urges the U.S. and Iraqi governments not to exclude Muqtada al-Sadr from the political process, in The National.
Campaign 2008 (5/5): It would be a travesty if Obama’s campaign gets knocked off course because of his former preacher, writes Sebastian Mallaby in the Washington Post.
Iraq War (5/3): Max Boot argues that the increase in casualties could be a sign that tough combat is under way that will lead to the enemy’s defeat, in the Wall Street Journal.
U.S. Economy (5/2): Amity Shlaes criticizes Hillary Clinton’s plan to implement a windfall oil tax, on Bloomberg.com.
Food Crisis (5/1): Gene Sperling warns that one of the casualties of the food crisis will be the schooling of the world’s poorest children, on Bloomberg.com.
Three-Front War (4/30): Michael Gerson argues that a decent outcome in Iraq would be considerably devalued if counterinsurgency efforts in Afghanistan and Pakistan stall, in the Washington Post.
Climate change poses threats to national security in a number of ways. In this report, sponsored by the Center for Geoeconomic Studies, Joshua W. Busby offers specific recommendations for confronting this important issue, including a list of "no-regrets" policies.
This report, by International Affairs Fellow Michelle D. Gavin and sponsored by the Center for Preventive Action, surveys the current situation in Zimbabwe and proposes steps that can increase the likelihood that regime change, when it comes, will bring constructive reform instead of conflict and state collapse.
Complete list of Council Special Reports.
In The Fall and Rise of the Islamic State, Noah Feldman tells the story behind the increasingly popular call for the establishment of the sharia—the law of the traditional Islamic state—in the modern Muslim world.
In Regional Monetary Integration, Peter B. Kenen poses an important question: Should various country groups follow the lead of the European Monetary Union and form similar full-fledged monetary unions?
Walter Russell Mead recounts the story of the centuries-long rivalry between the English- speaking peoples and their enemies in God and Gold.
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