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...they climb on, they watch America throwing rocks at them, making their journey more dangerous. From supporting human-rights campaigners to encouraging democratic nationalism in Taiwan, America has with its policies created significant difficulties for Chinese leaders, often without intending to do so. The emergence of an angry, nationalist China would be disastrous for the region and the world. But a China committed to developing into a modern-day Japan or Germany will be a global asset. Sadly, most Americans remain unaware of the conflicting signals they send to China, thereby generating huge uncertainties for the region. Consistency...
...confrontation over Iran's nuclear program has stirred up strong nationalist feelings in Iran, and support from much of the developing world for Tehran's position. Many of the developing nations who are signatory to the NPT see hypocrisy in the Western position, on the grounds that the treaty's purpose was to promote civilian nuclear energy, and pursue universal nuclear disarmament, not to maintain the nuclear-weapons monopoly of what had once been the Big Five but now looks more like the Big Eight (or Nine, if North Korea's claims are to be believed). Tehran also likes...
...strategic symmetry of the standoff remains, today, the same as it was in the late 1980s: Palestinian violence is unable to pose any strategic threat to Israel or to roll back its occupation; Israel's vastly superior military resources are unable to destroy either the traditional Palestinian nationalist movement nor its more militant rivals. Neither side can prevail through force, and periods of calm simply punctuate bouts of increasingly bitter violence. Sooner or later, Arafat will die, or be removed in some way from his position of power. But that may not substantially alter the strategic logjam...
...separate state had been largely marginalized by the central government's conciliatory approach. Bangkok pumped development funds into the south, started governing through local leaders, including Muslims, and pardoned a host of insurgents. Relative calm returned, until this year. Now, say experts, what used to be a nationalist agenda pursued by essentially secular groups has been hijacked by Islamic radicalism. "In the post-9/11 world, there is no such thing anymore as a local Muslim struggle," says Rohan Gunaratna, author of the book Inside Al Qaeda: Global Network of Terror and who is assembling a database on extremist Islamic...
Sources inside the insurgency say al-Zarqawi's willingness to sanction terrorist attacks against all civilians has created splits among the various rebel groups. Nationalist guerrillas, who make up the vast majority of fighters but object to killing innocent Iraqis, say the armed insurgency is being taken over by the well-funded and motivated international jihadis answering al-Qaeda's call for a holy war. As a result, nationalist insurgent groups are attempting to create their own leadership and forge ties with moderate Islamists based in Fallujah. Their goal is to create a political party that can contest...