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...Then there is the issue of size and China's past greatness. Washington assumes that China's destiny is plastic. Yet, to the CCP, it is predetermined. China is home to four-fifths of the population of East Asia and has 21/2 times more people than the whole of Southeast Asia. It has been the dominant civilization in Asia for 3,000 years and has had the largest economy in the world for 18 of the past 20 centuries. For a country that views its natural place at the center of Asia, expectations that it behave as a responsible stakeholder...
...Washington seeks the perpetuation of Pax Americana, a liberal peace underwritten by American power in Asia, despite the re-emergence of the world's most populous country. The U.S. wants the endgame in China to resemble the rest of East Asia - genuinely believing that this will ultimately achieve lasting stability and mutual prosperity - and complains that China remains an insular, self-interested and subversive beneficiary of the system. (Read "Five Things the U.S. Can Learn from China...
...sees it differently. In leading one-fifth of the world's population toward greater prosperity, China is creating its own paradigm that borrows freely, but stands apart, from the East Asian model of development, let alone Western approaches. Therefore, foreign criticisms about poor progress in economic and political reforms do not apply. Moreover, Pax Americana in Asia has been an aberration in existence for only six decades. In contrast, in Beijing's view, the return of the Chinese civilization-state simply restores Asia's natural order...
...homeschooling community - with its estimated 2 million children, or about 4% of the total school-age population - is expanding its overseas outreach. And on Jan. 26, the HSLDA helped the Romeikes become the first people granted asylum in the U.S. because they were persecuted for homeschooling. (See pictures of East Germany making light of its past...
After weeks of mystery, authorities in East Texas have arrested two men they believe are responsible for burning down a church in Smith County, about 90 miles (145 km) east-southeast of Dallas. The arrests (thanks to a telephone tip) are the first in a federal investigation prompted by unexplained fires at 10 unaffiliated churches in the state this year--all of which have been blamed on arson. Daniel George McAllister, 21, and Jason Robert Bourque, 19, who attended a different church together when they were younger, have been charged with arson and face up to 99 years in prison...