Word: dilemma
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...Stanley Hoffmann phrases the question, it sounds like a dilemma from a Moral Reasoning course. You’re an international relations expert at a top university. Your country is about to embark on a war that you think is ill-advised, maybe even disastrous...
...afraid the dilemma for Obama is that the more he talks about race being unimportant or transcended, the more important it will become to the media and voters' perceptions. And even if he can move beyond it in PA and Hillary never mentions it, the Republicans and various shadowy 501(c)4 campaign groups will be hounding the issue and replaying those videos between now and November. I also question Obama's claim that on occasion most churchgoers "strongly disagree" with sermons by their priests/pastors. Those who do usually find another congregation - or replace the controversial minister...
Thus, the dilemma for the Chinese leadership is clear. "They need to get this under control, but to do so without a lot of brutality," the diplomat says. The reason for that is clear enough: the memory of Tiananmen Square, undeniably, now hangs in the background as the crisis in Tibet unfolds in this, the year of China's grand coming-out party. The scale of the unrest in the Tibet Autonomous Region - as well as the threat they pose to the Communist Party leadership - doesn't compare to the massive political demonstrations in Tiananmen Square in 1989, which were...
...People's Armed Police, an anti-riot squad, responding to the demonstrations - not the potentially much more lethal People's Liberation Army. The problem for China is that the unrest, while apparently contained for the moment in Lhasa, spread to other cities on Sunday. The government's dilemma is obvious: if Beijing insists publicly - and actually believes - it has been relatively restrained in its response to the unrest so far, what happens if it continues? "Knowing full well that something like this - maybe not as intense, but something of this sort - was likely to come before the Olympics," says...
...Delhi faces a dilemma. While it is keen to protect its growing political and commercial ties with Beijing-during a January visit to China by Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao said the two countries should be "cooperative partners instead of competitive opponents"-India must also be mindful of the fact that its democratic credentials are one of its major points of difference with China, a difference Indian diplomats are often keen to play up. For Tibetan activists and human rights campaigners, the Indian crackdown seems uncharacteristically heavy-handed. "The Indian police should immediately release the marchers...