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...Six decades later, China has fully embraced globalization at home and has burst onto the world's stage in a largely positive fashion. It now has both interests and a presence in parts of the world completely new to China - such as Latin America and the Middle East - and enjoys rising international prestige. Beijing has generally managed its relations well with the major world powers: the U.S., Russia and the E.U. It has transformed its regional diplomacy in Asia, reasserted a role in Africa and become much more deeply engaged with international organizations and across a range of global-governance...
...While the system and country have weaknesses and challenges, the Sinological landscape is littered with its naysayers and critics. The People's Republic of China has endured for six decades and has overcome a wide variety of serious domestic crises, border wars and international isolation. Its strengths and adaptability have repeatedly been underestimated by outside observers. One thing is certain: China will remain a country of complexity and contradictions - which will keep China watchers and Chinese alike guessing about its future indefinitely...
Barack Obama: The inescapable president. From Good Morning America to televised town-hall meetings, ESPN to Men's Health, the leader of the free world misses few chances for free publicity. In his first six months in office, Obama gave three times as many interviews as either of his two immediate predecessors, according to the White House Transition Project. He's already held more prime-time news conferences than George W. Bush did in eight years...
...latest, six-part PBS series - The National Parks: America's Best Idea, which debuts Sept. 27 - does not sound like an exception. Who's going to argue with a tree? And the opening minutes - luxuriating in dramatic shots of lava flows, stalactites and waterfalls - promise plenty of unobjectionable, pledge-drive-friendly nature porn. But in a way he couldn't have planned, Burns has ended up making his most topical and political film yet. With America frothing over the role of government - should it save banks? should it expand health coverage? - The National Parks makes a simple case...
...other human-rights advocates argued that the new guidelines do not go far enough. Detainees are currently not allowed to meet with lawyers or have access to the charges against them. Under the new rules, a military official will be assigned to examine the evidence in each case every six months...