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...media may have spent the week fretting over the whereabouts of Bin Laden and the fate of John Walker, but concerns abroad are elsewhere. Argentina's economic and political meltdown dominated headlines from London to Manila, much of the world media bracing for some scary global financial fallout. (Not that foreign media were immune to the fate of John Walker - Pakistan's Peshawar-based Frontier Post, whose op-ed pages are more commonly filled with denunciations of America's campaign in Afghanistan, carried a piece by conservative American columnist Anne Coulter expressing the hope that "the government will deal with...
...moral authority of the world's only superpower? Where are its ethics and principles when international pressure is needed on the Israeli side? By destroying the PNA and Arafat, Sharon intends to erase the peace process altogether... One does not need to be a world statesman to predict the fallout and impact of chaos on the other bank of the river on neighboring countries, especially Jordan?The Israelis should beware, too: If any of them still really wants peace, they must know that Sharon is shattering their dreams for good...
...Beijing. But the really big news that scarcely brooked a headline was China's formal induction into the World Trade Organization. Having plunged its economy into a giddy capitalist roller-coaster ride that will forever change Chinese society, the Communist Party leaders are now bracing themselves for the political fallout from the inevitable spike in unemployment and poverty as state-supported industries are allowed to collapse in the face of foreign competition...
...your article on Osama Bin Laden's al-Qaeda network: Over the past few years we have been going gaga over globalization; now let us face its inevitable fallout, global terror [SPECIAL REPORT, Nov. 12]. The web of terror is enmeshed in the Internet. We must be prepared for online terrorism. Still we should not lose faith in technology; it will surely produce a solution to the problems it is creating. NANDINI DUTTA New Delhi...
...Pakistan, too, faces an uphill battle to overcome the post-Taliban fallout, warns Dr. Ayesha Siddiqa-Agha in the daily Dawn. The government's own proxy war policies in Afghanistan and Kashmir have cultivated a generation angry, fanatical young men, many of them still armed, who will have to be reintegrated into civil society, she warns. "The U.S. may have won its war, but unless a solution is found to the aforementioned problem, the state of peace and stability in Central and South Asia, the Middle East or the world will remain doubtful...