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Many people think foreign cars are better cars. How do you overcome that perception? Joe Longworth SPOKANE, WASH...
...vulnerable to infighting if grassroots unrest gets significantly worse. Scholar Min Xinpei of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington D.C. argues that the real danger for China is likely to come from discord among the top leadership rather than street demonstrations. As Pei writes in a recent Foreign Policy article, internal Party turmoil could render authorities "less capable of containing social instability and thus creating a vicious cycle of events that could result in progressive destabilization...
...visa ban against Belarus' authoritarian President Alyaksandr Lukashenka and other top officials. That relaxation of the travel restrictions, which were first instituted in 2006 after a rigged presidential election and violent crackdown on protestors, was renewed last week. In another sign of mending relations, the E.U.'s foreign policy chief Javier Solana visited Minsk on Feb. 19 for meetings with top Belarusian officials. E.U. leaders are now pondering inviting Lukashenka to the initiative's formal launch in Prague...
...guarantees that his coalition will last its four-year term. Members of his own Likud Party are grumbling that Netanyahu has given away too many ministerial portfolios to woo both Labor and the hard-right party Yisrael Beitenu of Avigdor Lieberman, who is likely to become the next Foreign Minister, despite his extreme anti-Arab views. (See a TIME video on Lieberman...
...narco-demand, cut off weapons-smuggling into Mexico and lasso more of the billions of dollars heading to the drug cartels. "This is a supply issue and it's a demand issue," said Janet Napolitano, Homeland Security Secretary and former Arizona governor. Clinton's seemingly surprised Mexican counterpart, Foreign Relations Secretary Patricia Espinosa, conceded the plan was "consistent with our bilateral relation in fighting organized crime." (Vote on Clinton in the TIME 100 poll...