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When police came to Nguyen Van Dai's door on Feb. 8, the Vietnamese human rights lawyer thought he was in for an ordinary questioning session. He was certainly used to them, having been called in by police at least a dozen times for running educational seminars on democracy, which authorities said threatened national security. But this time, it was different. Dai was taken to his local People's Committee, where about 200 murmuring citizens were waiting to denounce him for his crimes against society. One by one, the audience, mostly elderly, came to the microphone to speak - sometimes heatedly...
...call upon the Vietnamese government to allow individuals to peacefully exercise their rights of the freedom of speech without fear or recrimination." Whether Hanoi is prepared to listen could be seen later this year: police recently arrested a pair of human-rights lawyers and Bloc 8406 supporters, Nguyen Van Dai and Le Thi Cong Nhan, who had organized training sessions for political activists in the capital. They, too, are charged under Article 88. It's unknown whether their eventual trials will be so open...
...Lavrov was not alone in pushing a continued go-slow approach. Chinese Deputy Foreign Minister Dai Bingguo made an effort to distance himself and his government from the U.S. - European strategy as well. The confrontation with Iran, he said, "can only be resolved through peaceful means. The Chinese side feels that there has already been enough turmoil in the Middle East...
...middle age still chasing the dream." And he thinks the long-term effects are going to be disastrous for Japan's economy and social fabric. "If the trend continues for another decade, the anxiety will be realized in the form of social and economic chaos." A recent study by Dai-ichi Life Research Institute estimated that the limited spending power of NEETs (another Japanese variation of work-force dropouts, NEET stands for "Not in Education, Employment or Training") knocked 0.15 percentage points off Japan...
...achievable. The bigger problem for the U.S. is likely to be China, which has a history of doing exactly what Bush says he will not do: reward North Korean intransigence. When the nuclear crisis was heating up in the summer of 2003, China's Vice Foreign Minister, Dai Bingguo, visited North Korea to persuade Pyongyang to attend six-party talks. Shortly after Dai returned to Beijing, Pyongyang announced that China had promised a new aid package. That is precisely what the Bush Administration does not want to happen...