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...nudging China toward the free market, Indonesia's per capita GDP was more than double China's. Throughout the 1980s and early 1990s, Indonesia's fast-growing manufacturing sector was a magnet for foreign investment, and rural development schemes were so successful that the nation became self-sufficient in rice for the first time. The government even had ambitions to build commercial jets and cars. But since the 1997 Asian financial crisis, Indonesia has been virtually marching in place while its neighbors hit their strides. Last year China's GDP was nearly 30% higher than Indonesia...
Thailand's Prime Minister Samak Sundaravej has a notoriously big appetite. In an interview with TIME earlier this year, he spent far more time expounding on his favorite fried-rice recipe than detailing just how he would tackle rising prices of the grain. But on September 9, Samak's food fetish looked like it would cost him his premiership when the nation's constitutional court found him guilty of conflict of interest for having hosted several episodes of a commercial T.V. cooking show earlier this year. According to the Thai constitution, the P.M. may not accept compensation from a private...
...With the U.S. bogged down in Iraq, and both China and South Korea adamantly opposed to military action by Washington, the U.S. eventually found itself with little choice but to talk seriously to Pyongyang. The appointment of Condoleezza Rice as Secretary of State in the second Bush term and Christopher Hill as the chief U.S. negotiator brought in a team that was intent on a deal and willing and able to push the neocons to the side to get an agreement...
Pointing Fingers over Georgia Zbigniew Brzezinski certainly knows his subject when it comes to relationships with the Russians [Aug. 25]. I would expect his practical experience to be more useful than the predominantly academic knowledge of Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. It is unfortunate that President George W. Bush's actions in Iraq play into the Russians' hands. Two years ago, when Israel invaded Lebanon and killed hundreds of innocent civilians, our Administration cheered the onslaught. How can we criticize their aggression and belligerence when the U.S. under Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney acted similarly with respect to Iraq...
...neither friendship nor enmity.' MUAMMAR GADDAFI, Libyan leader, describing relations with the U.S. before Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice's arrival. It is the highest-level U.S. visit in 50 years...