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...special focus on Taiwan's biggest trading partner, China. Ma believes that sectors of Taiwan's economy, such as tourism and finance, have been stunted by the island's political standoff with Beijing. (China considers Taiwan a renegade province.) Ma is pushing for an agreement with China that would allow for free flows of capital and services across the Taiwan Strait for the first time. He has already opened the island to mainland tourists and eased restrictions on Taiwan investment in China...
...without any preconditions. Though Beijing has said it would accept him back on those terms, it is possible that the Chinese leadership--mindful of the return of exiles like the Ayatullah Khomeini to Iran--will try to block his path or refuse to live up to its promise to allow the Dalai Lama to go back to Tibet. But such a result would only broaden support and sympathy for the Tibetan cause...
...replacement consumers and will buy goods produced in Japan and other hard-hit manufacturing/exporting countries. This is why it is so important not to delay projects like DESERTEC and the Sahara Forest Project. Such projects have the capacity to provide the power, fresh water and food essential to allow developing economies to move from subsistence living. That they help Europe with green power, absorb CO2 by "greening" deserts and mitigate rising sea levels, is a bonus not to be ignored. They also generate jobs both in the recipient countries and in the developed countries who will build most...
...Obama did not allow his party to dwell on finger-pointing. He kept talking through their applause, forcing them to return to their seats. A coach, after all, cannot lead a team divided. He told the country's leaders, Democrats and Republicans, supporters and opponents of his presidency, that he knew "every American who is sitting here tonight loves this country and wants it to succeed." He continued, "That must be the starting point for every debate we have in the coming months, and where we return after those debates are done. That is the foundation on which the American...
...Obama's Senate seat, Roland Burris, who even Illinois' new governor and high-ranking Democratic officials in Washington are strongly urging to resign. Steele himself weighed-in on the matter, saying, "The best solution to avoid taint, and the continuation of the saga, is to clear the deck and allow the people of the state to fully decide." (See pictures from the remarkable world of Rod Blagojevich...