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...country that grows genetically modified food crops risks losing any special trade relationships it has with Europe. Because it is difficult to keep modified and non-modified crops separate once they have been harvested, African nations fear they could lose their privileges to export food to Europe if they allow any genetically modified food into the country. Just a single field of modified corn can “contaminate” an entire harvest and turn the purity-obsessed Europeans away...
With more than 30,000 restaurants in 114 countries, McDonald’s is America’s proudest export, and more than almost any other company, it has left its mark on the world. That’s why for our sake, and the world’s, we must provide an emergency loan package to reverse Ronald’s retreat. Unfortunately, any relief legislation will likely be snagged up in partisan pettiness. Republicans, who hate everything associated with Bill Clinton, will never lift a finger to help his favorite restaurant. While at the same time, the small...
...visits alone rarely produce dramatic moments of discovery. In the past, arms were tracked down mostly by piecing together complex mosaics from satellite pictures, surveillance cameras, export-import data, painstaking air and soil tests, and intelligence from defectors. Although Resolution 1441 gives inspectors stronger powers than they have ever had, it's still a struggle to turn up evidence that Iraq wants to hide. Chemical bombs may be buried in wells or stored in residential basements. The Iraqis could be shuffling tiny quantities of biotoxins around as if playing three-card monte. Labs can be kept in movable, undetectable vans...
Containment is precisely the wrong option for addressing such a growing threat. Deterrence, after all, is a two-way street. The Soviet Union’s nuclear arsenal permitted it—directly or through proxies—to export its murderous doctrines around the globe for almost 50 years, at a cost of tens of millions of lives. The autocrats of North Korea, because of their ability to cause massive damage to South Korea and Japan on short notice, are relatively free to starve their own population and sponsor terror abroad. Containment of Iraq would, at best, provide Hussein...
...Still, it might get harder to muddle through in the future, since there are indications that the most reliable part of Japan's economic engine?its high-profile export industries?is under unprecedented attack. "Japan's competitive positioning is declining internationally," says Ken Courtis, vice chairman of Goldman Sachs Asia in Tokyo. "There have been huge productivity gains in the U.S., while China has lower labor costs. Japan is getting it from every side. There is no place for them to hide...