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...including in two apartment bombings - on election day itself, which Bloom says had "no significant attacks." In the walk-up to the vote, 40 were killed in car bombs in Karbala in February, and 36 died on Jan. 25, when car bombs targeted three hotels in Baghdad (including the one that nearly got me and my friend's father). Substantial attacks, at nearly a once-a-month rate, can be traced back to August 2009, when two truck bombs hit the finance and foreign ministries and killed 101 people. Al-Qaeda in Iraq and elements of the former Baathist regime...
Since then, Russian-Kyrgyz relations have deteriorated, a process that culminated in Wednesday's declaration by Kyrgyz Prime Minister Daniyar Usenov that one of the heads of the opposition had met with Putin before going forward with the revolt. Usenov told a press conference on Tuesday in the Kyrgyz capital of Bishkek that opposition leader Temir Sariyev claimed during an interrogation that he had received assurances from Putin of Russia's support for the opposition...
...One afternoon last fall, on an unusually humid day in Beijing, the center of the city was buzzing as teams of designers, soldiers and Communist Party officials finalized preparations for the 60th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China. The event would be broadcast nationwide to one of those billion-person audiences only China can deliver. The party had planned a parade with fighter-jet flyovers, missiles that would roll along Eternal Peace Street and the once-a-decade ritual in which the top leader dons a Mao suit, stands in the open sunroof...
...Party officials working on one element of the program, the nighttime fireworks display, had a particular request of the designers. China, they worried, is like many other nations - a place where the line between healthy patriotism and nationalism isn't apparent until you've stepped over it. They fretted that after a day of military adrenaline, a night of explosive percussion might be too much. So they asked, Would it be possible to arrange for a big, beautiful, calming fireworks display? (See pictures of U.S. Presidents in China...
...into the global system for that. But it is also true that the fantasy some had of "engagement" - the hope that as China became richer, it would become more supportive of American interests - isn't working out either. What the U.S. needs is a new strategy. It should be one that takes a ruthless defense of American interests as a starting point, since without that, no strategy is sustainable. It must reflect a real understanding of the levers of power in Beijing and the psychology of the Communist Party leadership. And it has to unite us with our allies, both...