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...Near Silence from the White House Obama's choice to stay out of the debate over the specifics of health reform has complicated the discussion of many issues, but particularly the question of how to handle abortion coverage. When Obama did speak publicly, his rhetoric was designed to reassure the pro-life community. But it wasn't matched by language in the bills his Democratic congressional colleagues were drafting. (Read "Understanding the Health Care Debate: Your Indispensable Guide...
...China's defense spending has increased by an annual average of 16% over the past 10 years, and on Oct. 1 the government marked the 60th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic with a massive military parade. U.S. officials often question why China feels its military requires such a sustained modernization program, and a Pentagon report in March said that a lack of transparency from the Chinese side "poses risks to stability by creating uncertainty and increasing the potential for misunderstanding and miscalculation." China rejected the U.S. report as "groundless" criticism and an effort to stir...
...founder of the nationalist website Anti-CNN.com, which is critical of Western media coverage. The meeting quickly made the rounds online, with several commenters complimenting the U.S. diplomats for their openness. "The American officials showed tolerance, politeness and a democratic style because they were open to any question, even questions that are very controversial," Zhao Jing, a popular blogger who attended the meeting and writes under the pen name Michael Anti, told TIME. (See pictures of Obama visiting Asia...
President Obama's plain-speaking Defense Secretary, Robert Gates, on Nov. 12 summed up the Administration's Afghan dilemma in a single question: "How do we signal resolve and at the same time signal to the Afghans and the American people that this is not open-ended?" The fact that there's no good answer explains the Administration's hesitation in committing more troops to the fight. Indeed, the objectives cited by Gates may function at cross-purposes...
Last week, as U.S. President Barack Obama was preparing for his first visit to Beijing and the China-as-rising-superpower meme was center stage, a story on Politico.com posed a provocative question: Is China headed toward collapse...