Word: shying
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...that have much to gain from economic cooperation?as cooler heads in China, Japan and South Korea are eager to point out. "As Chinese, we should do our best to avoid creating the impression among the Japanese public that the new China is a rising and hostile country," says Shi Yinhong, a professor of international relations at Renmin University in Beijing. "What we say and do are very important in shaping the Japanese sense of their own safety in the international community." Says Akiko Fukushima, director of policy studies at the National Institute for Research Advancement in Tokyo: "We have...
...Talabani, who spent years fighting the regime of former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein as the head of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan, becomes the first Kurdish president of an Arab-dominated country; Yawar is a tribal leader of the Sunni Muslim minority. The announcements, along with the naming of Shi'ite politician Ibrahim Jaafari, 58, as Prime Minister, followed nine weeks of deadlock in Iraq's parliament since the country's landmark elections...
...diplomats told me last week that Gaza disengagement is-for the moment, at least-causing them more concern than the pacification of Iraq. That is progress of a sort too. For one thing, it's an implicit sign that things are going better in Baghdad, where the new, democratic, Shi'ite-led government was installed last week. But it is also an indication that the White House, which refused to talk to Yasser Arafat during George W. Bush's first term, may be about to get more involved in the diplomatic scutwork that attends the never ending Middle East negotiations...
...since the U.S. invasion. On March 11 the Amman daily newspaper Al-Ghad identified Ra'ed al-Banna as the attacker, in an article purporting to describe the family's wedding-like celebration of his martyrdom. The story was picked up by Arab satellite channels, provoking outrage among Iraqi Shi'ites, who have held demonstrations ever since outside the Jordanian embassy in Baghdad. The report also ignited a diplomatic feud between Jordan, which has denied that al-Banna was involved in the Hilla attack, and the interim Iraqi government, which is furious at the failure of its neighbors to stop...
...Exactly a year ago, for example, I attended a meeting of some New York intellectuals and Arab ambassadors to discuss the aftermath of the war in Iraq. As we left, one ambassador remarked to another that the U.S.-inspired elections might lead to the Shi'as achieving a dream they have held since the 7th century. But having resisted Shi'ite domination for almost 14 centuries, the Sunnis are unlikely to acquiesce quickly. Sudden democratic rule in the Middle East may not necessarily enhance American interests...