Word: communiste
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...think for a moment that McNamara started the Vietnam War. That was mainly the result of how U.S. leaders in the aftermath of World War II perceived the communist threat and thought about foreign policy. By the time McNamara got to Washington in 1961, the Cold War was blossoming, and along with it, the domino theory. That theory, rooted in the run-up to World War II, held that it would be dangerous folly to let an aggressor snatch away little countries, be emboldened and then make world war. The aggressor had to be stopped wherever he was making...
...nation discussed only one subject: the budget of the incoming government. The Congress Party, reelected to power after holding office for the past five years, had won a large enough majority of parliamentary seats to create a governing coalition free of leftists—like members of the Communist Party—who had slowed market reforms in the past. The new government, more moderate and centrist in composition than in its past term, won such a large majority, in fact, that officials promised very bold action to continue India’s economic rise...
...rule on whether a Chinalco - Rio Tinto tie-up would hurt national security, to sidestep a political grenade. Rudd's political opponents have called him a "Manchurian Candidate" who has allowed China to gobble up Australia's national treasures. The charge is unfair; he's no apologist for the communist rulers in Beijing. (In Taipei, where Rudd studied Mandarin, his home was the wonderfully named Republic of China Anti-Communist Recover the Mainland International Youth Activity Center.) Rudd wrote his university thesis on the trial of leading democracy activist Wei Jingsheng, and in a speech in Mandarin to students...
...Nevertheless, the specter of a communist country of 1.3 billion people can spook even close economic partners. In the eyes of some Australians, it is one thing to sell what lies underground to China, but rather another to let Chinese companies own Australian resources themselves. Twice this year, Chinese state-owned enterprises have snapped up major Australian mining stakes. But the biggest deal didn't go through. The state-owned Aluminum Corp. of China, better known as Chinalco, was supposed to take a $19.5 billion stake in Australian-British Rio Tinto, which controls, among other mines, vast iron-ore deposits...
...literally the future of the country - more than half of all Iranians are under the age of 30. Having clamped down on civil and political rights, the Iranian government will more than ever have to produce jobs for this new generation - much in the way the Chinese Communist Party maintained power after the Tiananmen Square crackdown in 1992 by providing a steady stream of economic growth. (See pictures of Tiananmen...