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...least because the committee is heavily pro-China. "Beijing has already anointed him," says opposition legislator Emily Lau. Tsang would then serve out Tung's current term until 2007, when the committee meets again. At that time, however, other candidates may emerge to take on Tsang. "Beijing will regard the next two years as a test," says Anthony Cheung, a professor of public administration at Hong Kong's City University. "They want to see if he has the skills to pacify the public." If not, Tsang may go Tung...
...HAVE SUSPICIONS ABOUT THE PROSPECT OF A STRONGER EUROPEAN UNION. WHAT WORRIES YOU? Suspicion is an understatement. For me, the developments in the E.U. are really dangerous with regard to moving out of a free society and moving more and more toward masterminding control and regulation. WHY DO YOU FEAR AN E.U. SUPERSTATE? We spent a half-century under communist eyes. We are more sensitive than some other West Europeans. We feel things, we see things, we touch things that we don't like. For us, the European Union reminds us of COMECON [Moscow's organization for economic control...
...grew up believing in universities as places where everybody, particularly minorities, could be free of the old impediments and everyone had access to all these wonderful things. But I have since come to regard universities as much less reliable allies. My critics see extreme moral indignation. I have much more contempt for the disproportionately great pretensions and claims about their courage and beliefs than any real anger. But I didn't really write the book to settle accounts. My passion comes out of the sense of what's important and the freedom that comes through study and the concern...
...paradigm of national security is changing,” he said. “No longer can states presume to provide for their security and well being without regard for the security of others in more distant lands...
...that now all those corruption charges will crumble. Russia has placed itself in an awkward situation, but I'm quite willing to help Russia get out of this with the hope that our relationship will be equal and friendly. How will you reassure people in Eastern Ukraine, where many regard you with suspicion, that you're working in their best interests? People in the east lived in a tightly restricted, closed information space. So let's open their information space and replace propaganda with information. Then they'll understand that they have not lost the election but won, just like...