Secretary John Kerry and United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon gave these remarks before their meeting on February 14, 2013. They outlined the main issues they would discuss: North Korea's nuclear test and Six Party Talks, negotiations with Iran, the crisis in Syria, and France's intervention in Mali.
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Fawzia Koofi, Afghan Member of Parliament, women's rights activist, and presidential candidate, speaks about what to expect for Afghanistan after U.S. troops withdraw in 2014.
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Throughout Chuck Hagel's marathon confirmation hearing, America's decade-long war in Afghanistan was noticeably overlooked. But it is curious to see the next secretary of defense receive so few inquiries from senators about the war whose end he will presumably oversee in the coming years, says Gayle Tzemach Lemmon.
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Adam Segal says the recent Chinese cyberattacks on Bloomberg and the New York Times highlights both the willingness of Beijing to shape the narrative about China, as well as the vulnerability the top leadership feels about how they are portrayed.
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The expectation of dramatic change persists. The very anticipation of such change, even if it is unfounded, imparts a particular type of "meta-instability" to the Chinese system today.
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China understands that its growth depends on imports, say Graham Allison and Robert D. Blackwill.
Beijing has pursued increasing media regulations under President Hu Jintao. But as a flourishing China expands its international influence, many of its citizens hunger for a free flow of information.
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After a week with Lt. Col. Mohammad Daowood's battalion, "what I found is that the [Afghan National Army] looks very different when there are no Americans around."
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Gender inequality remains widespread in India. Women could combat it by asserting their rights, says Jagdish N. Bhagwati.
The UN Security Council passed this resolution regarding North Korea and ballistic missile technology on January 22, 2013.
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Admiral Dennis Blair and CFR's Micah Zenko discuss U.S. drone strike policies.
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Ellen Bork, director of Democracy and Human Rights at the Foreign Policy Initiative, leads a conversation on the relationship between China and Tibet and the ongoing religious persecution in Tibet.
Hina Rabbani Khar, the minister for foreign affairs for Pakistan discusses the implications of U.S. and NATO troop reduction and withdrawal from Afghanistan, U.S.-Pakistan relations, and details surrounding the U.S. operation that killed Osama Bin Laden.
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Peter Orszag outlines the obstacles that China faces on the road to becoming a high-income country and explains why other nations should take note.
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Max Boot argues that substantial withdrawals of American military personnel from Afghanistan ignore the reality of the situation.
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Richard N. Haass argues that many of the same issues that we faced in 2012 will continue to be problematic in 2013.
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All signs suggest that the United States will not be keeping large numbers of forces in Afghanistan for much longer, says CFR's Stephen Biddle.
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President Obama and President Karzai published this joint statement on January 11, 2013, which discusses the future of U.S.-Afghan relations.
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As the United States pivots to Asia, disputes over territories in the South China Sea have escalated tensions and threatened regional stability.
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President Obama and President Karzai held a joint press conference at the White House on January 11, 2013, to discuss the transition in Afghanistan.
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