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...China requires a similar sustained engagement. After a century of pain and trauma, the Chinese people feel they are restoring China's dignity and standing in the world. Achieving rapid economic growth while quietly transforming a Communist Party system is quite a challenge. Many Chinese leaders feel they are climbing a treacherous political slope. As they climb on, they watch America throwing rocks at them, making their journey more dangerous. From supporting human-rights campaigners to encouraging democratic nationalism in Taiwan, America has with its policies created significant difficulties for Chinese leaders, often without intending to do so. The emergence...
...Wade in place, and he will undo Bush's fusion of government money with religious charitable groups. Whatever else Kerry is running as, it's not as a radical. In fact, Kerry seems the more conservative figure. In the debates, he was calmer, cooler and less prone to rapid personality shifts. It was Bush who seemed like the fidgety usurper. But style reflects substance. It's Bush who has radically recast the G.O.P. as a Big Government, religiously motivated tool for transforming the world. Kerry has merely campaigned on a return to Clinton-era centrism in domestic policy...
...somewhat less stark when put into practice." The most immediate challenge that will face either man as President--how to buttress a credibly elected Iraqi government in the face of a ruthless insurgency--won't bend to a quick fix. Both Kerry and Bush argue that a rapid turnover of combat duties to Iraqis would provide relief to U.S. troops, but that objective may take years to achieve. Though Kerry hopes to pull U.S. forces out by the end of his first term, the danger that Iraq could descend into terrorism-torn anarchy and sectarian strife means that...
Were NBC's woes to go on for an extended period, they could slow the continuing, rapid ascent of Zucker, who in his three- plus years of running NBC's entertainment programming failed to develop any real comedy or drama breakout hits. Since May he has overseen all NBC Universal's vast TV properties, including news channels CNBC and MSNBC; thriving cable networks like Bravo, USA and Sci-Fi; upstart Spanish-language network Telemundo; and the Universal TV studios. Along with his business-side colleague Randy Falco, Zucker is considered a favorite to succeed NBC Universal CEO Bob Wright...
There has been no responsible long-term economic planning, little thought given to how we pay for the coming baby-boom retirement. Or how the rapid industrialization of China and India will affect the American middle class: the issue is not just jobs, but also soaring prices for commodities like oil. Or how long can we sustain a global economic system in which the combined U.S. budget and trade deficits soak up 79% of the world's savings, as they did in 2003. Given the deepening evidence of American unilateralism and fiscal irresponsibility, the world may soon find more pressing...