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...yourself? When I went to the U.S. in March, the Americans thought I may be too close to the mainland. But I am one of the few politicians in Taiwan who attends the Tiananmen memorial service every year. I am the only politician to go to a Falun Gong gathering. I was the first politician in Taiwan to criticize China's antisecession law, not because I support Taiwan independence, but because [the law] is unnecessary and unwise. I am Taiwanese as well as Chinese...
...Monday's attack in Sadr City may indicate that Sunni insurgents are retaliating against Moqtada al Sadr, a Shi'ite cleric and politician, and his Mehdi Army militia. Maliki, like his predecessor, has pledged to control or disarm militias affiliated with Shi'ite political parties, including the Mehdi Army...
...single incident last earlier this year, the bodies of 14 Omars were found in a Baghdad garbage dump. They had all been killed with a single bullet to the head, and their ID cards were placed carefully on their chests. It has, says Saleh Mutlak, a prominent Sunni politician, "become the most dangerous name in Iraq...
Calderón attended a mid-career program at the Kennedy School, graduating with a master’s degree in public administration in 2000. But even before coming to Harvard, he was already a high-ranking politician in Mexico, serving as national president of his party from...
...DIED. Ryutaro Hashimoto, 68, controversial former Prime Minister of Japan; of multiple organ failure; in Tokyo. A short-tempered politician and dapper dresser, Hashimoto achieved international fame as Trade Minister in 1995, when he feuded with Washington in an auto-sales dispute. As Prime Minister from January 1996 to July 1998, he launched financial reforms modeled on London's "Big Bang" deregulation and defused a crisis over U.S. bases in Okinawa. An expert swordsman, he quit politics last year after a scandal involving donations to his party...