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...thanks to his own political makeover and the internal squabbles of Yushchenko's once triumphant coalition, Yanukovych came Friday afternoon to the Supreme Rada, Ukraine?s National Legislature, to be confirmed as Ukraine?s new Premier - and, as a result of recent reforms, actually take over many of the Presidential powers of his onetime nemesis, Yushchenko. The flamboyant Yuliya Tymoshenko, Yuschchenko's own onetime revolutionary partner and prime minister and now leader of the parliament's Byut faction, decried ?the sellout of the Orange Revolution" and pledged "stiff opposition? to the hatching coalition government of Yanukovych's PR faction...
...also be seen as evidence of an unprecedented political maturity in the fledgling democracy. ?The Orange Revolution was all about fair elections rather than individuals,? reminds Viktor Nebozhenko, an authoritative Kiev-based political analyst. For the first time ever in the region, Ukraine has both a President and a Premier elected in fair elections, with the first opportunity to learn what separation of powers really means...
...China's ally, North Korea. A formal ministry statement blandly stated that China was "seriously concerned" by Pyongyang's July 5 test-firing of seven ballistic missiles, launches that drew international condemnation as a dangerous provocation. Even by Chinese standards, it was a mild response, particularly so because Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao had made a pointed and very public request that North Korea refrain from conducting the tests...
...toned-down wording may be a sign of Beijing's ambivalence about how tough to get with Kim, but few doubt its sincerity in wanting to defuse this crisis. Last week, for example, China tried to negotiate with Pyongyang independently, dispatching a Deputy Premier and assistant foreign minister to Pyongyang. "China's really trying," said Hill, who is U.S. President George W. Bush's point man on the North Korea nuclear issue. "We're trying. Everyone is trying except, unfortunately, the D.P.R.K." (North Korea officially calls itself the Democratic People's Republic of Korea...
...existential mood, not so long ago, he asked his class: what makes “the good life?” “One with lots of money,” they replied in unison. It’s been about three decades since former Chinese premier Deng Xiaoping proclaimed “to get rich is glorious,” and the Chinese people have taken him at his word. Luoyang, though a far cry from the sparkling metropolises of Shanghai and Hong Kong, is hardly austere. Ladies in posh dresses and heels browse marbled department stores. McDonald?...