Word: sovietize
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...same time, the world should not pursue a policy of isolating China. The truth is that economic engagement, by flooding China with Western business and ideas, is the best way to encourage market liberalization. And as the former Soviet Union so dramatically taught us, when a nation wholeheartedly adopts market reforms, political change inevitably follows...
...know that Harrison Ford, when he's not busy on movie sets, is an ardent environmentalist who is on the board of directors of Conservation International. Tracking down Jimmy Carter required the assistance of TIME's Hugh Sidey, and Charles contacted Mikhail Gorbachev via cell phone while the former Soviet President was traveling in Italy...
...While real-life aerial battles have dominated the headlines, China's university students are playing out their own version of Sino-American relations on the computer screen. Their video-game bloodthirst reflects a surging patriotism among Chinese youth and an increasing frustration with perceived American arrogance. "After the Soviet Union fell, the U.S. thought it could do anything," says Zhang Lian, a freshman at prestigious Peking University. "We Chinese have the responsibility to tell them...
...tell if something is a stereotype, one might ask? Well, there's a pretty simple test--it's a stereotype if it offends a group of wonderful, intelligent, virtuous people. Like, say, southern Connecticut females. Or Mongolian nomads. Or retired Soviet cosmonauts. Or Harvard Asians...
...world has seen military flare-ups in these parts before. In 1983, to the north, a Soviet fighter downed a Korean airliner that strayed into Soviet airspace, killing all 269 aboard. And Saturday's mid-air collision occurred just outside the Gulf of Tonkin, where in 1964 President Johnson used a skirmish involving the USS Maddox and USS Turner Joy as a pretext for launching air strikes against North Vietnam, beginning what came to be known as the Vietnam...