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...with China. At the same time, Chen brought Taiwan no closer to true independence. Instead, the island got further isolated within an Asia that is more tightly linked around an expanding China. "We tried to help our sense of Taiwan identity, but it resulted in self-marginalization in the region," says Philip Yang, a political scientist at National Taiwan University in Taipei. As a result, "we believe Taiwan is losing its edge, losing its advantages and losing its chance at long-term prosperity...
...Fallon had held his command, which included Iraq and Afghanistan, for the past year. A Navy pilot, he liked to "push the envelope" both in the air and in his comments on U.S. policy in the region. In the April Esquire, Thomas Barnett, a former professor at the Naval War College, wrote that Fallon was "brazenly challenging" the Bush Administration's push to go to war with Iran, fighting "against what he saw as an ill-advised action." The lengthy article claimed that while President Bush wants war with Iran, "the admiral has urged restraint and diplomacy," adding, "Who will...
...Saturday started off with thick fog for the Harvard crew. Wareham and junior skipper Megan Watson helmed the A division boat, while sophomore skipper Liz Powers and freshman crew Quincy Bock were on the B division team. The fog, which rolled in and out of the region throughout the day, pushed the start of races to the early afternoon and forced the abandonment of the first B division race. After the intermittent delays, action finally resumed at 3 p.m. Then came the squall. “For about an hour and a half, it was constant high winds...
...State TV presents Iran, and Islam in general, as being under a concerted assault by the U.S. and its allies. One presenter asks his guest, "In this region, Iran has had the most number of elections in the past 30 years. Why is it constantly accused by the West of lacking democracy...
...children in Gaza," but wasting its time on sanctions against Iran. Coverage of Ahmadinejad moving openly around Baghdad and being feted by the Iraqi government was contrasted with images of President George W. Bush's secret visits to Iraq to suggest that Iran is eclipsing the U.S. in the region. Voting in the election is proclaimed as an Islamic duty, and as "a fist to the mouth of the enemy...