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...nature of the protesters' beliefs [May 5]. The suggestion that such protests are a result of government propaganda or education is misleading. In fact, thousands of overseas Chinese, who are not affected by any so-called "patriotic education," marched on streets to make their voices heard. The root cause of so much dissatisfaction among the Chinese people is the sense of being treated unfairly by Western media. There is a great need for the Western media, the Chinese government and its citizens to have constructive dialogues to build a mutual understanding. After all, the West needs China as much...
...once again disappointed by TIME's biased report, "Why China's Burning Mad." The root cause of so much dissatisfaction among the Chinese people is the sense of being treated unfairly by Western media. Sadly, in Western democracies there is hardly anyone to speak for China. While Westerners who have never traveled to China to see the reality for themselves make their criticisms, almost no scholar or policymaker from mainland China has ever had a chance to represent their view in the Western media. There is a great need for the Western media, the Chinese government and Chinese citizens...
...distant promise of E.U. membership. The Radicals, whose chairman Vojislav Seselj is on trial for war crimes at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in The Hague, even threatened to impeach Tadic immediately after the elections and try him for high treason. They also vowed to root out other pro-European "traitors" from political scene and form a strong bond with Russia, which might have turned Serbia into a Balkan version of Belarus...
...cease-fire unilaterally last year only to see al-Maliki ignore it with the initial strike in Basra. But one thing is clear: the latest pause in the running fight between al-Sadr and the U.S.-backed Iraqi government offers no visible solutions to the problems at the root of the conflict. Al-Maliki wants to disband the Mahdi Army, or at least de-fang it, before provincial elections in the fall. The bloody nose the Mahdi Army gave al-Maliki in the latest crisis shows how unlikely that is. Above all, al-Sadr still wants the Americans...
Violent and frightening they may have been, but these groups were also essential to ensuring that the free-market economy took root. With the police and courts in free fall, it was protection rackets that guaranteed that contracts entered into by the new entrepreneurs of Eastern Europe would be honored. "If it wasn't for the mafia in Russia and elsewhere in the early 1990s, nothing would have moved, nothing would have happened," said Gary Busch, an American businessman who worked in Russia during the turbulent 1990s. "They were essential for the free market." The gangs of Sofia, Moscow...