Word: diplomatic
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...rooted in widespread anxiety about the blistering pace of change since the fall of communism in 1989. Many Poles feel that change was forced on them by corrupt, distant and overeducated leaders. "There is a huge tradition in Poland of the masses grumbling about the nobility," says one Western diplomat. "The PIS is reaching out to all those people who have not been recognized by the post-communist élites...
...forces had to fire warning shots as the protesters turned a blind [eye] to their repeated requests." The official death toll is 10, but everyone thinks it is actually much higher. A United Nations official tells me 40 were killed and 3,000 arrested, including 1,000 monks. Another diplomat hazards "hundreds" of deaths...
...appointments made to the Standing Committee of the Politburo--the nine-member inner Cabinet of China--but so opaque are China's politics that the tea-leaf readers will be busy for years. "Even when you know the names and positions of the new appointments," says a Western diplomat in Beijing who tracks Chinese politics, "you still have to wait for policy changes to be sure what they mean...
...said that one military officer told her, “You are like water in my hand...nobody can come and help you. Nobody can protect you and live peacefully in this country.” Her speech was followed by presentations from Mark A. McDowell, a Canadian diplomat who had covered Burma while stationed in Bangkok for the last four years, and Tyler R. Giannini, the clinical director of the Human Rights Program at Harvard Law School. McDowell, who has made an estimated 25 visits to the country, said the western perception of Myanmar is not entirely correct...
...consensus among the diplomatic community in Kigali is that Kagame is a benevolent dictator. One senior Western official says that, contrary to predictions that Kagame would follow the African pattern of guerrilla leaders turning corrupt autocrat, he is devolving power and enforcing accountability. Last year, he gutted the central bureaucracies and handed many powers to local mayors, who now report every three months to the President. "It's democracy with constraints," says the diplomat. "You're free to criticize, but you can't bring up the ethnic question, or you'll end up in jail." Kagame points out that...