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...Richard Holbrooke, the U.S. envoy to the region, is working on a media plan for Pakistan. It aims to develop the government's ability to disseminate information via new technologies such as cell phones. The idea is not to promote propaganda but to facilitate public-service messages, like emergency information or registration for refugees. The plan also allows for training government officials to become more open press officers, and to fund independent radio stations to counter those run by extremists. All this is good, but it's not enough. Pakistan's press needs to take a hard look at itself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Casualty of War | 6/1/2009 | See Source »

...summer of 2006, in the immediate aftermath of North Korea's unexpected long-range missile launch, the Chinese government quietly sent a senior envoy, former foreign minister Tang Jiaxuan, to Pyongyang to express Beijing's displeasure. Tang cooled his heels for a couple of days, before finally meeting - briefly, diplomatic sources have said - with leader Kim Jong Il. Just three months later, in October 2006, North Korea again defied the world and tested a nuclear bomb for the first time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: China Gropes for a Response to North Korea's Nukes | 5/28/2009 | See Source »

...same place. China, which could inflict considerable economic pain on Pyongyang by cutting off trade and fuel shipments, now must decide whether or not, in truth, a nuclear North is against its "core interests." And it must do so with the world very much watching. Expect a senior envoy from Beijing to fly to Pyongyang at some point in the next few weeks or so for a conversation that will be anything but polite...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: China Gropes for a Response to North Korea's Nukes | 5/28/2009 | See Source »

...adapt to the ravages of global warming. Far more populous low-lying countries, from Bangladesh to the Netherlands, will watch with interest. "Very small places can offer very big answers," says Ahmed Moosa, the editor of the online Dhivehi Observer, who has also been appointed the nation's climate envoy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Maldives' Struggle to Stay Afloat | 5/18/2009 | See Source »

...There is also, perhaps, some truth to the statement by Dmitry Rogozin, the Russian envoy to NATO, that NATO would be wiser to hold the exercises “in some psychiatric hospital” than in Georgia, given the current state of affairs. Protests calling for Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili to resign have rocked Tbilisi, for the past month, and the ranks of the protestors have grown to encompass members of the government. One of these, a former parliamentary speaker, even declared to a crowd of protestors that Georgia “is not a democratic country...

Author: By Ellen C. Bryson | Title: Exercising Power in Georgia | 5/13/2009 | See Source »

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