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A Superpower Stirs
Unlike the U.S., China doesn't aspire to remake the world: Its longstanding mantra is "nonintervention" in the internal affairs of other countries. Even under Chairman Mao's reign, China never sought world domination, like the former Soviet Union—although it stirred up revolution in other parts of Asia and beyond. Now that China has largely discarded socialism, it's hard to find a definition for what remains of its ideology, values and world view.
Today’s lesson: Omar Al Bashir
Let me make a free contribution to the ongoing 5th Academy of Politics organized by the ruling Justice and Development Party, or AKP, because the “do’s and don’ts” of politics that we witnessed with Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir’s aborted visit to Turkey for an Organization of the Islamic Conference meeting are extremely important teachings.
You Can Bank on It
An overseas trip by a U.S. president is always costly, logistically challenging, and full of colorful backdrops. President Obama’s trip to Japan, Singapore, China and Korea is no exception. If anything, there will be more excitement than usual, since there is still tremendous foreign public interest in this appealing, young, intelligent leader, his inspiring speeches, and his photogenic wife.
Science Diplomacy for Sustainable Development: A Southern Perspective
Science will play a key role in addressing global problems, expert have said. They argue a global science pact is needed to make solutions to problems accessible to all nations.
Fans meet up with French writer-turned-director
Vietnamese fans have had the opportunity to meet with and discuss the works of noted French writer Philippe Claudel at HCMC’s Institute of Cultural Exchange with France (Idecaf). Forty-seven year old Claudel is a familiar novelist to Vietnamese readers through several works that have been translated into Vietnamese like “Grey Souls,” “World Without Children,” “Grandfather Linh’s Niecea” and “Brodeck’s Report.”
In Israel, some on the right support talks with Hamas
Not surprisingly, 72 percent of Kadima voters shared Mofaz’s willingness to talk with Hamas, whose control of the Gaza Strip would make any deal with the mainstream Fatah faction necessarily incomplete. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his Likud party are strongly opposed to talking to Hamas, whose charter calls for replacing Israel with an Islamic state in Palestine. But interestingly, 53 percent of Israelis who support Mr. Netanyahu’s Likud party also support talks with Hamas, though the Haaretz article did not spell out exactly what conditions Hamas would have to fulfill.
Dinner to help promote bond between international visitors and local community
Tonight three groups that work with international visitors are hosting a dinner, in part, so other people from abroad will have a surer way of making bonds within the Syracuse community than Sanglakhee did. Sanglakhee, a graduate student in international relations, and more than 25 other international students each will sit at different tables to get to know people from the community and begin the process.
Engaging Cuba, One Step at a Time
In Havana, the most conspicuous evidence that hostility toward the U.S. has softened can be found at the U.S. Interest Section along the Malecón promenade. When I was last here in early 2008, the gleaming white tower was camouflaged by more than a hundred billowing black flags that Fidel Castro had erected in 2006. The flags were meant to block a scrolling marquee displaying anti-Fidel, pro-America messages, installed by the Bush administration.
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