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The struggle came to a head in February of last year, when the Kyrgyz handed the U.S. military base an eviction notice just weeks after Russia provided the impoverished country with a $2 billion loan and $150 million in aid. Russia denied any link between the two events, but U.S...
The U.S. State Department was quick to issue a statement saying its air base in Kyrgyzstan was "functioning normally." "We are continuing to monitor the circumstances. We continue to think the government remains in power," State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley said in a statement on Wednesday. But that view is...
Party officials working on one element of the program, the nighttime fireworks display, had a particular request of the designers. China, they worried, is like many other nations - a place where the line between healthy patriotism and nationalism isn't apparent until you've stepped over it. They fretted that...
Calming fireworks. It was the sort of request that tells a great deal about the charm and dangers of life in China. This is a country that runs on contradictions, whether it is the market socialism that now produces record economic growth or the plans for giant green cities, an...
As the past few months of unnerving tension between Beijing and Washington have reminded us, all this matters a great deal because of another of those mind-twisting ambitions China has: to rise to a position of great power without causing the international system to crumble. This seems unlikely. Few...