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China is not Haiti or Bosnia, places where America's involvement may be desirable but is ultimately optional. China is not optional. A half-century after World War II, the U.S. remains the dominant power in the Pacific, and to the degree that it tries to maintain influence there, it will inevitably knock up against China's rising importance. The peace and prosperity of the world in the next century depend in many ways on what Beijing does. How should the U.S. handle it? There are essentially two prescriptions: a policy called comprehensive engagement, and one that goes under...
...engagement to work, however, the U.S. must maintain its military presence in Asia. The U.S. Pacific Command comprises 200 ships, 2,000 aircraft and 300,000 soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines, of whom 100,000 are "forward deployed" in South Korea, Japan and at sea. As long as there is a danger of war on the Korean peninsula, a drawdown of U.S. forces is unlikely; in the meantime, they help stabilize the entire region. The presence of 47,000 U.S. troops in Japan, for example, reassures not only Tokyo, which is carefully monitoring its great neighbor's rise to power...
...whole process will have to be reviewed to comply with European Union trade regulation." Hillenbrand reports that the slight change in the British stance has other European countries infuriated. The British government had always contended that there was no link between beef consumption and CJD. British scientists now maintain that while humans cannot contract the bovine disease, the consumption of beef from cattle bearing the disease may be a factor in developing the human brain sickness. The spread of mad cow disease is thought to have stemmed from a traditional British farming practice of including portions of dead sheep...
...office controversy peaked, and Vince greeted her with the news that he thought he should resign. "You can't quit," she told him. "I just got here." Lisa called Foster's White House office frequently, asking his secretary, "How's he doing?" Deborah Gorham always said, "Fine," trying to maintain a professional distance, even though she too thought Foster was suffering from strain...
...common misperception is that putting someone to death saves the greater economic cost of housing them in prison. However, due to the extensive legal fees of the appeals system, the death penalty costs more than three times as much as life imprisonment. One could maintain that the appeals system should not be as extensive. Yet this claim introduces the most powerful and most common, argument against the death penalty...