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...intent on improving its ties with Asian nations and believes Australia can help. The U.S. has listened to Canberra, says historian Edwards, on issues like Indonesia's financial crisis and East Timor. And it welcomed the government's decision to send troops to restore order in the Solomon Islands. In August, Foreign Minister Downer visited North Korea at Washington's request to urge the regime to continue talks on its rogue nuclear program. If the U.S. and China ever reached the brink of war over Taiwan, Australia - with its lucrative financial ties with China - would "be doing everything it could...
...like to complete it for him: If the Democratic Party can't beat Bush, then it deserves to go the way of the Whigs and the Know Nothings. And if Bush gets re-elected, I swear I will never vote Democratic again. Cary A. Wiesner West Branch, Iowa, U.S. Indonesia Is Struck Again Your World Watch item on the suicide bombing in Jakarta made it clear that terrorism is still prevalent in Indonesia [Sept. 20]. That attack came less than two years after the October 2002 bombing on the resort island of Bali that killed 202 people. Indonesians today...
...ASIA INDONESIA: For President-elect Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, the biggest test will be the economy...
...There's nothing wrong with caution when it comes to decisions that will affect 240 million people. But the political and economic realities facing the country's first directly elected President are big, and some require urgent action. Indonesia's military needs another big push to bring it under civilian control, and yet Yudhoyono's inner circle is crammed with generals and ex-military men. Marcus Mietzner, an Indonesian military researcher at Australia National University, argues that the core of Yudhoyono's problem is "indecision on policy issues." He points out that cleaning up the military was already needed when...
...asking all of you, not just those who are present in the mosque, but everyone to unite together after we have been competing for eight months ... to build a better Indonesia." SUSILO BAMBANG YUDHOYONO, newly-elected President of Indonesia, speaking to a gathering in a mosque near his home in Jakarta after his landslide win last week...