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...salient point of the special report is that, unlike Europe and Japan, the U.S. is still growing at a healthy clip. The reason we are still growing is that our immigrants and naturalized citizens are the one part of the population with a birth rate that is more than replacing itself. Half of all the population growth in America is occurring among Hispanics. With immigration becoming such a pivotal issue, people need to remember that in a very real sense immigration is what keeps us growing and helps invigorate our society in myriad ways...
...exploded its nuclear device at 10:36 a.m. on Oct. 9, Shinzo Abe's plane was en route from Beijing to Seoul for a summit with South Korean President Roh Moo Hyun. Upon landing, the new Japanese Prime Minister hurriedly gathered his staff at their Seoul hotel to devise Japan's response to the test. Some aides suggested canceling the summit and returning home to Tokyo immediately. Abe refused. "He was very clear that we weren't going to show that we were confused or anxious," says Hiroshige Seko, a special adviser to the Prime Minister who was with...
...administration that is less than a month old, North Korea's nuclear shocker posed a difficult trial by fire. But Abe?at 52, Japan's youngest postwar Prime Minister?has aced his debut on the world stage, showing decisiveness and deft diplomacy that have heartened his supporters and confounded his critics. Not only has the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) leader demonstrated his willingness to play hardball with North Korean dictator Kim Jong Il, he has also displayed a conciliatory side during fence-mending visits to China and South Korea aimed at easing strained relations between Japan and its neighbors...
...punishment to North Korea, banning its imports and barring its ships from Japanese ports, ahead of sweeping sanctions imposed by the United Nations Security Council last week. In addition, to counteract fears that Pyongyang's nuclear capabilities could touch off a regional arms race, Abe made it clear that Japan had no intention of developing nuclear weapons?thus drawing Japan closer to its key ally and military protector, the U.S., while reassuring China that North Asia's balance of power was unchanged...
...families are getting smaller--with one vital exception. Compared with those of Europe and Japan, the U.S. population is younger and more colorful because of the continued arrival of immigrants and their higher-than-average birthrates. Of the 100 million Americans who will join us in the next 37 years, half will be immigrants or their children. In the next few decades, 97% of the world's population growth will occur in the developing world; the U.S. is the largest developed country in the world that is still growing at a healthy clip. That matters, strategically, economically and politically...