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White paper’s Asia engagement plan fills ‘blank spot’
WHEN I presented Sachin Tendulkar with an honorary Member of the Order of Australia earlier this month in Mumbai, I was struck by the way he spoke so eloquently and emotionally about the important engagement he had with Australia when he started his Test career.
Culture in the Cross Hairs
On July 7, in the wake of the destruction of the sacred shrines in Timbuktu — a Unesco World Heritage site — the spokesman of Ansar Dine, one of the Islamist groups controlling northern Mali, declared to the press that “there is no world heritage. It does not exist. Infidels must not get involved in our business.”
Music is only a different way of diplomacy for her
The song starts with guitar and then Rabab, coupled with a melodious voice. It is a Pashto song but the accent is American.
Income goal to boost China France co-op
China's double goal to double income of its residents by the year 2020 will substantially broaden the scope of cooperation between China and France, said a senior Chinese researcher said on Friday.
Haiti - Diplomacy : International Meetings of the Prime Minister in Mexico
Saturday 1st December in Mexico, the Prime Minister, Laurent Lamothe, attended the inauguration of the new president of Mexico, Enrique Peña Nieto, who replaces outgoing President Mr. Felipe de Jesús Calderón Hinojosa, a great friend of the Haitian people.
Hillary Clinton: The Secretary of 1,000 Things
On a recent Monday, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton walked with her husband onto a stage at the New York Sher aton to a standing ovation that only got louder as she tried to quiet things down.
Dear President Clinton
What a year you’ve had, the kind that really burnishes a legend. At the Democratic National Convention, on the campaign trail, in speeches aplenty and during interviews galore, you spoke eloquently about what this country should value, and you spoke unequivocally about where it should head.
Diplomacy – Rice style
Susan Rice was miffed, all right. Her frequent foil, the Russian ambassador to the United Nations, Vitaly Churkin – an outsize personality whom she might be screaming at one moment, then laughing with the next – was at it again.
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