Word: processing
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...even while Obama talked up the importance of the Copenhagen process and hyped his Administration's domestic initiatives on climate change, including new rules that would limit greenhouse-gas emissions from automobiles, many environmental groups came away from his speech underwhelmed. Obama made no mention of specific targets for U.S. emissions cuts at Copenhagen, nor did he agree to attend the summit himself - as British Prime Minister Gordon Brown has done. He spent much of his speech focusing on the need for major developing nations like China to make their own moves on climate change, which sounded a little hypocritical...
...problem in getting the process moving again, of course, is that Netanyahu and Abbas don't share a common destination. The Israeli Prime Minister has surged in Israeli opinion polls by pushing back against Obama's settlement-freeze demands, and he is under no domestic pressure to make any concessions. But Abbas' domestic constituency will see the New York City meeting as yet another humiliation inflicted on him by Washington, which has had him pose for endless photographs with an array of Israeli leaders who have no intention of satisfying the basic demands of a peace agreement he could accept...
...solution and see U.S. pressure as the only way to achieve that outcome. That's the message in Abbas' refusal to talk in the absence of a settlement freeze. But after demanding such a freeze and then being rebuffed by Netanyahu, Obama finds himself trying to imagine a peace process between two leaders whose visions of peace are incompatible with those of their counterparts. The fact that they'll still show up when Obama calls is simply a reminder that the fate of the peace process may rest largely in the White House - and the extent to which...
...past five years, Hu has headed the Commission, a critical lever of power in China through which the Party controls the country's armed forces. Promotion to its vice chairmanship is widely seen as an essential step in the opaque process by which the Party selects its next leader. Critically, Hu's appointment to the same job was announced at the Plenum held three years before he ascended to the General Secretaryship of the Party in 2002. Because previous head-of-state successions have essentially been orchestrated by dominant leaders like Mao Zedong and Deng Xiaoping, Hu's path...
...succession is not a done deal by any means," says Beijing-based analyst Russell Leigh Moses. "Not every succession process in China goes exactly as planned." In fact, the uproar surrounding Xi's non-appointment may well be overblown anyway, Moses argues, noting that senior Party officials are still trying to put in place concrete rules on succession and other procedures. "They all agree that there is a problem but they can't agree on how exactly to fix it or where to start," Moses says. "I don't see any signs of impatience inside the Party on this issue...