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...toothless "presidential statement" from the Security Council. But with the test of another nuke on May 25 - this one over 20 times more powerful than the squib the North exploded in its first test three years ago - along with several missile launches, Pyongyang has put the Chinese leadership in the one place they hate to be during an international crisis: directly on the spot. Indeed, says Alan Romberg, a former U.S. State Department official now with the Henry L. Stimson Center in Washington, "Pyongyang has spit in [China...
...been more willing to accommodate the concerns of Washington, Tokyo and Seoul. But the other, and probably more powerful, influence in Beijing is the international department of the Chinese Communist Party, which tends to be pro-Pyongyang. Those two factions often struggle to influence the decisions of the senior leadership in Beijing, whose "red lines" seem to be a "constantly moving target," as John Bolton, the former U.S. ambassador to the U.N., puts...
...Netanyahu's support of a two-state solution comes with conditions that Palestinians have never accepted before and have shown no signs of accepting now. He plainly urged the Palestinians to accept Israel. "We need courage and sincerity not only on the Israeli side: we need the Palestinian leadership to rise and say, simply, 'We have had enough of this conflict. We recognize the right of the Jewish people to a state its own in this land. We will live side by side in true peace...
...primary objective will be to support the University during the transition of leadership within [Faust's] senior administration," Vautin said in the release, adding that he intends to fill the organizational gaps left by the 177 central administration staff members who opted to take the retirement package. "My personal goal will be to ensure that the VPA organization is fully engaged and ready to work with the new leadership...
...placed on the leadership council of Lebanon's Shi'ite militant group Hizballah by Ayatollah Khomeini when the group was founded in 1982. Mousavi does not recognize Israel, though he has condemned the Holocaust...