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...Many do make the attempt. But trips through China to neighboring countries, where refugees can seek asylum in a South Korean embassy, are arduous and fraught with danger: most refugees lack papers and don't speak Chinese. In Yanji on a recent night, a group of eight refugees were preparing to make a run for it anyway. In a safe house on the top floor of a concrete apartment building, they huddled on the linoleum floor, pouring over a map of Mongolia while a missionary went over the route they would take, explaining where to make the crossing under...
...left rebranded itself, the right retrenched. The Tories' abysmal campaign exposed the party as hoary and clannish, with no creative agenda beyond nationalist scaremongering about the euro and asylum seekers. Voters didn't go for it, just as Germans have turned away from the periodic Euro-skeptic and anti-immigrant noises made on the right. The center-right's lurch toward nationalism has disheartened libertarians who believe the free movement of people and capital are core conservative principles. And corruption scandals in numerous countries have damaged conservative credibility...
...That, of course, is the big question: What must the Tories do next? Hague has been criticized for a campaign directed at "bogus" asylum seekers, tougher measures for crime, staying out of the euro and lowering taxes. This presented an image, former Tory Deputy Prime Minister Michael Heseltine told the bbc, of "a right-wing, xenophobic party talking to itself in a very introspective way." A new vision is clearly needed, but the difficulty for the Conservatives is that Labour now has successfully pre-empted the center ground...
...attack Blair from the left, advocating an income tax increase to pay for better services. The Tories' record in power undercuts their freedom to call Blair too cheap. Hague has thus been forced to play to his base, focusing on such right-wing populist issues as detaining all asylum seekers and, especially, keeping Britain out of Europe's single currency. Two-thirds of voters back him on that, but it ranks 11th on a list of issues they consider most important...
...Channel in a refrigerator truck last year added fuel to a debate about who should be entitled to enter and remain in the country. Is Britain a "soft touch"? Does it need more foreign workers, or fewer? There is no consensus. William Hague has made the temporary detention of asylum seekers a central plank of his campaign, responding to anxieties in some towns where asylum seekers are now housed. It opened him to charges of racism, but the stance is popular among his core voters...