Word: flare
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There may be another motivation for Jiang to keep quiet. The Chinese President, who is due to retire later this year, seems to be counting on Beijing's vastly improved international ties as a key part of his personal legacy. An 11th-hour flare-up with Washington wouldn't help that effort and could risk backfiring. Says Wu Guoguang, a political-science professor at the Chinese University of Hong Kong: "Every time Sino-American relations dip, Jiang ends up looking dumb." So who's stirring the pot? It may be China's hard-liners, particularly in the military and security...
...Hanson's command of a broad historical canvas is impressive. But his analysis becomes less convincing when he speculates about the future. Today, he says, "deadly Western armies have little to fear from any force other than themselves." His corollary: the West need not worry about non-Western flare-ups (e.g., in the Middle East) as much as a war between two Western armies...
...Israeli-Palestinian flare-up was not the only challenge facing Washington's coalition against terrorism this week. A suicide attack by suspected Islamic terrorists on India's parliament saw seven Indians killed, and pressure is mounting on India to retaliate against Pakistan, from whose territory the gunmen are alleged to have come. The Times of India reports that India's ruling party is urging raids on terror-training facilities on the Pakistani-controlled side of Kashmir, but that the opposition is urging caution and warning of "nuclear repercussions...
...shall found a magazine and christen it Flare...
...What the Harvard community really needs is a poorly-written, shoddily-designed, less-frequently published and inferior-in-all-ways knockoff of FM. I shall found a magazine and christen it Flare...