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...wish the speakers could have talked to each other more, but the overall attitude was very positive. The event was hosted by the Harvard Project for Asian and International Relations, Harvard College Group for the Study of the Tibet Issue, and the Asia Centers Undergraduate Council in the Center for Government and International Studies. —Staff writer Shan Wang can be reached at wang38@fas.harvard.edu...
...fact that this openness can be a two-edged sword was underlined during a press conference held Tuesday by the State Council, the country's highest administrative body. Wang Zhenyao, a senior official at the Ministry of Civil Affairs, was asked by a reporter from the government's English-language newspaper, the China Daily, why so many schools had collapsed when government buildings in the same towns had not. According to state media, at least six schools were destroyed by the quake and its aftershocks; at one school, almost 900 eighth and ninth graders were believed to have been buried...
...since then both the Sadrists and various Sunni factions have displayed a new interest in gathering political power at the polls even while keeping a hand in Iraq's ongoing violence. The Sadrists are poised to win broadly in southern Iraq, while members of the Sunni Awakening Council will likely clinch victories in Anbar Province. That will leave Maliki, with a cabinet without Sadrists and Sunnis, struggling to make the case for having a national mandate...
...what other options exist? Retired General William Nash of the Council on Foreign Relations says the U.S. should first pressure China to use its influence over the junta to get them to open up and then supply support to the Thai and Indonesian militaries to carry out relief missions. "We can pay for it - we can provide repair parts to the Indonesians so they can get their Air Force up. We can lend the them two C-130s and let them paint the Indonesian flag on them," Nash says. "We have to get the stuff to people who can deliver...
...Which means that American policy in Lebanon is now in tatters. The U.S. has tried almost everything in its efforts to de-fang Hizballah: designating it a terrorist organization; securing a UN Security Council resolution calling for it to disarm; encouraging Israel to invade Lebanon in 2006; and finally, pushing the Lebanese government into unsustainable game of brinkmanship with the Shia Muslim militant group...