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The U.S. prefers China to be like Japan: economically powerful and politically cooperative but strategically dormant and militarily inhibited. Knowing that this was never realistic, the second best outcome for Washington - captured succinctly in a 2005 speech by the then U.S. Deputy Secretary of State and current World Bank president...
Gates, Open I was impressed with Elizabeth Rubin's engaging profile of Robert Gates [Feb. 15]. I have a new respect for and confidence in Gates and President Obama's choice. Kermita Thornton Oklahoma City
Enemies of the State Joe Klein, in "Into the Lion's Den," is correct that the Republicans' need to demonize Obama trumps the party's ideological beliefs [Feb. 15]. What happened to jumping over the net and congratulating the guy who beat you? Through obstruction, obfuscation and outright lying about...
Congress may be struggling to pass much legislation these days, but its members remain masters at summoning indignation. As political theater, the first few days of congressional hearings into Toyota's customer-safety crisis had it all: testy exchanges, Clintonian hairsplitting, obnoxious grandstanding--even multiple references to Marisa Tomei's...
Debt-laden Greek companies, with nowhere to turn for further loans, may go belly up or be gobbled up. "Without cash, you're dead as a business," says Aegean's Vassilakis, whose company is in discussions for a possible merger with Olympic Air. For Basil Stephanis, president of Selonda, a...