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...past year, China has established itself as the key dealmaker in nuclear negotiations with North Korea, allied itself with Russia in an attempt to shape the future of central Asia, launched a diplomatic offensive in Europe and Latin America and contributed troops to the U.N. peacekeeping mission in Lebanon. With the U.S. preoccupied with the threat of Islamic terrorism and struggling to extricate itself from a failing war in Iraq, China seems ready to challenge--possibly even undermine--some of Washington's other foreign policy goals, from halting the genocide in Darfur to toughening sanctions against Iran. China's international...
...concession in the south of Sudan, and there are reportedly 4,000 Chinese troops there protecting Beijing's oil interests. (By contrast, despite the noise that China made when one of its soldiers was killed by an Israeli air strike on a U.N. post in Lebanon last summer, there are only 1,400 Chinese troops serving in all U.N. peacekeeping missions worldwide.) "Is China playing a positive role in developing democracy [in Africa]?" asks Peter Draper of the South African Institute of International Affairs. "Largely not." Human Rights Watch goes further: China's policies in Africa, it claimed during...
...Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad fueled destabilizing forces in Iraq, Lebanon and Palestine while pursuing a nuclear weapon. His influence cost thousands of lives and threatens many more in the future as he sparks continued deterioration of the region that is the world's greatest source of oil and terrorists. By avoiding the choice of Ahmadinejad, TIME sacrificed its journalistic integrity. Henceforth the rightful name for your selection should be Popular Person of the Year...
...Instead, Empire distributed the movie only in Haddad's native Lebanon, arguably the most sophisticated media market in the Middle East, where many are familiar with the TV work of Borat's creator, Sasha Baron Cohen. But audience sensibility wasn't the only obstacle in Borat's path: Movies in Lebanon are tightly monitored by a censorship board attached to the General Security Directorate, the country's most powerful intelligence institution. The board has traditionally banned or censored movies that contain anything that might be construed as Israeli propaganda, anything sexually explicit, and anything that might incite or insult...
...explanation for Borat's smooth ride in Lebanon may be that the country's intelligence services aren't what they used to be. The former head of General Security, Jamil Sayed (who was also the former head of the film board) is currently in prison under suspicion for involvement in the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri. And since the Syrian withdrawal, local audiences have seen such racy fare as Brokeback Mountain and Munich, Stephen Spielberg's drama about Israel's campaign to avenge athletes slain by Palestinian terrorists at the 1976 Olympics. Lebanese cinema-goers are also...