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...also why two U.S. senators are scheduled to arrive in Beijing this week, brandishing the negotiating equivalent of stone axes. Lindsey Graham and Charles Schumer are co-sponsors of a bill that would slap a 27.5% tariff on all Chinese imports unless Beijing allows its currency to appreciate significantly against the dollar, an adjustment some trade experts believe would reduce the deficit by making China's exports more expensive in the U.S. and U.S. products cheaper in China. Chinese Prime Minister Wen Jiabao, at a press conference last week, suggested the two Washington politicians could save U.S. taxpayers the airfare...
...Pappas and Maj. Gen. Miller - has upset lawmakers on Capitol Hill. On Tuesday, Sen. John Warner, the chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, announced at a hearing that he expected to have Maj. Gen. Miller testify before his panel at an unspecified date. Last month, Sen. Lindsey Graham, a Republican from South Carolina who also sits on the committee, made an even more pointed comment, saying, "Shame on us if we allow a story to go forward that is not true and the... dog handlers are paying the price...
...asking for a vote to terminate the mission--just a more thorough exploration of the rationale for war. "We still don't know exactly what the terms of engagement are, under whose auspices we are operating," says defense critic Dawn Black of the N.D.P. Acting Liberal leader Bill Graham says his party still has "total support" for the Afghan deployment--not surprising, since he announced it last May as Defense Minister in the previous government. A debate, he says, would only help "Canadians better understand what is at stake...
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...assets in Britain. Is there a perfect number of players that would make the European energy market competitive? "There will be a small number of energy companies that play a Europe-wide role," suggested E.ON chief executive Wulf Bernotat - a view echoed by some independent experts. Graham Weale, in a white paper published last month by consultants Global Insight, argues that from three to seven firms could help lift the bloc's competitiveness, "provided that [the energy companies] are clearly seen to compete and do not lapse into a cozy oligopoly." Because Brussels lacks the power to veto every merger...