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It's an ambitious target, given the complexities of the nuclear issue alone. The six-party agreement calls for a carefully scripted process just to get the North to suspend activity at Yongbyon, which must be verified by U.N. inspectors. If that's achieved, the foreign ministers of the six...
Alan Leong, a lawyer and lawmaker, is challenging Beijing-anointed incumbent Donald Tsang to be Hong Kong's next Chief Executive-even though he cannot win. The vote, on March 25, will be cast by an 800-member Election Committee that is largely pro-Beijing, and so pro-Tsang. Leong...
Yet a university poll about the debate showed that nearly 65% of those surveyed would still vote for Donald Tsang if they could. Hong Kong people do not fully realize or appreciate how different I am from Donald Tsang. Also, this is not really a free election. It has always...
At a recent appearance in Washington, lead U.S. negotiator Christopher Hill was asked, facetiously, which was harder: negotiating with Pyongyang or within the Administration to get a "coherent" policy on North Korea. Hill laughed, but it was no joke. Those in the Administration who have argued for a strategy of...
"Our [talks are] really an effort to address broad problems in the overall region, of which denuclearization is but one," Hill said, setting the goal as a general thaw in tensions in northeast Asia. The Six-Party agreement prescribes a step-by-step process to verifiably shut down Yongbyon, before...