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...with the fact that Sarkozy, while espousing the values of hard work and love of labor, announced plans to increase his own presidential salary by 150 percent in October 2007. Thankfully, the contradictory and extravagant nature of Sarkozy’s personality has yet to take a major toll on France’s foreign relations. For now, the image Sarkozy projects to allies is that of a slightly deranged but internationally-harmless megalomaniac...
...addition to the renewed agreement, several other programs will continue to bring senior Chinese officials to the U.S. for a semester, according to Kennedy School professor Anthony Saich, who has been instrumental in setting up the Kennedy School’s program. The School of Public Health has two major programs to train officials and hospital administrators, he said...
Much of the agreement’s success, according to Xue, is due to longstanding professional ties between Saich and Lu Mai, the secretary-general of the China Development Research Foundation, which is the third major participant in the exchange...
...signing up to a prospective Russian Southern Stream natural gas pipe-line. Serbia also sold to Russia a 51% stake of Naftna Industrija Srbija (NIS), a much prized national oil company for $614 million and the promise of a further investment of $770 million. Russia plans build a major gas storage facility in Serbia, making the country a key base for Russian energy supplies to Europe. This consolidation of ties with Serbia achieves two Russian strategic goals: taking over national energy assets of European countries; and keeping erstwhile allies of the Soviet Union from being drawn into the Western fold...
...including "insights into their intentions" - which is important given concerns about Iran's nuclear program. "When you deal with a country you label as an adversary you assume the worst, and the less you know the worse it gets," he says. "We don't claim we are having a major impact on solving the nuclear issue, the human rights issue or the Hizballah issue, but I think we would argue we may help a little...