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...undermine--some of Washington's other foreign policy goals, from halting the genocide in Darfur to toughening sanctions against Iran. China's international role has won the attention of the new Democratic majority in Congress. Tom Lantos, incoming chair of the House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee and a critic of Beijing's human-rights record, told TIME that he intends to hold early hearings on China, on everything from its censorship of the Internet to its policies toward Tibet. "China is thinking in much more active terms about its strategy," says Kenneth Lieberthal of the University of Michigan...
...going to see many more hearings," Schumer said yesterday when I asked him if there was increased willingness of Democrats to confront Bush's war powers. North Dakota's Byron Dorgan, the Democrats' third ranking member of the Senate and an outspoken Administration critic, said he thought it was "a little early" to roll back Bush's expansion of executive power in the previous Congress. A Democratic judiciary staffer supportive of a rollback said, "We understand the political reality." And leadership aides say bluntly that short of new revelations that turn public opinion against expanded executive authority, the Democrats...
When the global all-news channel France 24 launched last month, French President Jacques Chirac cooed that it would help France "maintain and diffuse its view of the world." After a month on the air, that conceit still engenders sneers. "Let's face it," says one prominent French government critic, "you're either a journalist or a functionary of the foreign minister, not both." But the ambition of running parallel editorial operations in English and French on a $112 million budget annual budget - about a fifth of CNN's - earns points at the very least for sheer panache. Can France...
...Instead, Borat's equal-opportunity offensiveness is on par with so much else that the U.S. exports to the Middle East - it represents freedom without responsibility. As one Lebanese film critic said after seeing the movie: "The real message of Borat is that America is ridiculous." But people in the Middle East don't need to go to the movies to learn that...
...recent report overseen by former Army Major General John Batiste, who headed the 1st Infantry Division and has been a vocal critic of the Administration's handling of the war, says the choice Bush faces in Iraq is stark: "We have reached the point where we need to ask the question whether it is more important to preserve the country of Iraq with its fa?ade of democratic government, or protect our own national security interests...