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...stopped imports of U.S. chickens or auto parts or anything else by concocting some health risk or claiming a failure to meet Chinese safety standards. Instead, we kicked the can down the road, launching an 'investigation' about possible trade violations - one that will be long forgotten by the Chinese public by the time it's completed months from now. (See pictures of China's investments in Africa...
Summit meetings, in particular those with 20 heads of state in attendance, are usually scripted, staid affairs. That's especially true when these get-togethers involve Chinese President Hu Jintao, whose private persona varies little from his public style. As befits someone who is running the world's most populous country, he is intensely disciplined and extremely cautious. On Tuesday, he will meet one on one with U.S. President Barack Obama on the sidelines of the U.N. General Assembly in New York City before heading off to Pittsburgh, Pa., for the G-20 summit on Sept. 24-25. This...
...Iranian regime that was worried in the weeks leading up to what in Iran is known as Qods Day - the annual day of government-sanctioned rallies supporting Palestinian statehood that take place in most cities in Iran. All public events surrounding the Islamic month of Ramadan, which historically have provided opportunities for Iranian politicians from across the ideological spectrum to speak their minds, were either shut down or scaled back. Former President Mohammed Khatami was scheduled to speak alongside Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini's grandson at Khomeini's shrine two weeks ago, but the occasion was canceled. Former President Ali Akbar...
...Iranians knew if there would be any turnout. It had been weeks since the last major opposition rallies, and in the meantime the public had been subjected to show trials, allegations of torture and rape in prisons and stern warnings by the regime against any future action. But as the world heard the erratic statements of Ahmadinejad set against the ongoing maneuvering of the U.S., Russia and China on sanctions vs. engagement, hundreds of thousands of green-clad opposition supporters in multiple cities in Iran defiantly took to the streets. Participants of the Qods Day protests told TIME that crowd...
Still, in his book, Erikson describes how increased cultural-exchange activity at the end of the 20th century led to more robust public discussion and independent journalism in Cuba by the start of the 21st century - enough so, he writes, that an alarmed Fidel Castro cracked down with sweeping arrests of dissidents and writers in 2003. Despite that setback, exchange advocates feel it's time to start again. The point, they say, is that even if Juanes meant nothing by shouting "Cuba libre!," it was enough if he got some of those 1 million Cubans wondering what he did mean...