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...find the essay "American Lament" rather disturbing. In the past year, I've heard enough media reports on China, the next superpower, but I've never seen an article by Chinese media labeling China a superpower, nor do I sense the Chinese government has the intention of taking over the U.S. as the world's sole superpower. Indeed, Chinese people are proud of our country's success, but we have been humble despite all the fuss over China's rise. Insecurity, which is very discernible in Michael Schuman's article, will not disappear by attacking another country's success. Yang...
...Premier Wen Jiabao are expected to meet on the margins of the meeting, although one conversation is unlikely to sort out their complicated history. Both countries are still absorbed in a game played in miniature: recently, for example, a Kashmiri student was given a Chinese visa that was stapled rather than pasted into his passport, an implicit questioning of Kashmir's status as a state of India. Indian authorities, Guruswamy says, then quietly suggested they might do the same for Tibetans. Sure, this is small stuff. But it could get bigger. And high in the Himalayas, soldiers continue their patrols...
...orientation of the victim, for that day also marked the transition from the tradition that crimes are an offense against society to the view that crimes are only an offense against the groups with whom the victim is associated. Ironically, this treatment of crime widens the chasms between groups rather than narrows them, for it actually perpetuates and legitimizes the belief that society is composed of compartmentalized groups instead of fundamentally similar individuals...
...secular project; its militant fronts warring with Pakistan, like the Baluch Liberation Army, descend from a tradition of Marxist-Leninist guerrillas that took root in the 1970s. Jundullah, though an avowedly Sunni group, articulates its identity as a rejection of the Shia clerics ruling Iran - a political act - rather than one born out any particular fervor...
...possibility of Zelaya's reinstatement, which Micheletti and his conservative Republican backers in the U.S. Congress had fanatically opposed from the outset, seems a coup in itself. In the end, both sides agreed on the need "to root the decision [on Zelaya's return] in a democratic institution" rather than international mediation, says Dan Restrepo, President Obama's senior director for Latin America in the National Security Council. (See pictures of the violence in the wake of the Honduras coup...