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...Awami League is not blameless either. Western diplomats in Dhaka, Bangladesh's capital, say the party's stubborn refusal to compromise on any of its demands, its calls to take the fight to the streets and its decision earlier this month to boycott the election-"we'll resist the one-sided polls at any cost," Hasina told a rally-all made confrontation inevitable. "It's hard to see that there's a good-faith effort on either side," said one Western diplomat before Iajuddin called off the election...
When Pearl Harbor was hit, Takeo Iguchi was in Washington, D.C., where his father was stationed as a Japanese diplomat. By the time the war was over, he was in Tokyo, where he survived the city's horrific firebombing- and still has scars on his hands to prove it. When I recently had lunch with Iguchi, the 75-year-old diplomat-turned-academic brought up the Clint Eastwood film Letters from Iwo Jima, which he had seen the previous day. He wondered aloud whether the film would resonate with Japanese today, most of whom had been born after...
...during his investment-banking career at Goldman Sachs and had doubtless sat through many similar monologues. "He's been in a lot of meetings with a lot of Chinese officials, and knows that the last thing you do is get angry at the effective ones," says one former U.S. diplomat. Wu spearheaded China's effort to join the World Trade Organization five years ago and was named Health Minister during the 2003 SARS crisis. "She's been helpful in the past, and she'll be helpful in the future," said the former diplomat...
...Hasina's accusation has been backed by diplomats such as U.S. ambassador Patricia A. Butenis, who said last month that the interim body "has not always conducted itself neutrally, and the nation has suffered as a result." But the Awami League too must take some of the blame for the unfolding crisis. Western diplomats in Dhaka, Bangladesh's capital, say that the party's stubborn refusal to compromise on any of its demands and its early calls to take the fight to the streets - riots in late October set the tone for much that has followed - made confrontation inevitable. "Tactically...
...1980s sapped the economy and international sanctions in the 1990s left Iraq in bad need of spare parts. "The consequences have been really quite severe. Things are in bad shape," says James Placke, senior associate of Cambridge Energy Research Associates, who spent decades in the region as a U.S. diplomat. "It is not a good investment environment." That is an understatement. Iraq's oil minister Hussein al-Shahrastani has said in recent months that it will take about $20 billion to fix Iraq's equipment well enough to more than double its current output of about 2 million barrels...