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The anti-engagers denounced Dwight Eisenhower and John F. Kennedy for engaging Nikita Khrushchev over disarmament. They yanked their support for Richard Nixon after he opened up talks with China. They even slammed the hallowed Ronald Reagan for negotiating with Mikhail Gorbachev. Thankfully, U.S. Presidents have generally had the good...
The world will need more than divine intervention to end the food crisis that has ripped across the planet during the past few months. Prices for almost every staple food - rice, wheat, maize, sugar, milk - are soaring at rates of inflation not seen on such a global scale in a...
It's astonishing to me how many in China seem incapable of acknowledging the plight of Tibetans. India has dozens of insurgencies, but its democratic politics have largely accommodated such dissent. China thoroughly crushed Tibet, squelched its culture and ultimately forced the country's spiritual leader into a sad exile...
For most of China's long history, natural disasters have been viewed as both portents of change and tests of the government's "mandate of heaven." Many Chinese point out that Mao Zedong died only months after the Tangshan quake. The May 12 quake is being discussed in similar terms...
As the political crisis in Zimbabwe spirals into bloodshed and chaos, its ruler, Robert Mugabe, seems to have endless tricks up his sleeve. Already he has stalled an election after probably losing the first round, used the state-controlled press to divert attention to the chronic issue of land control...