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...That will risk alienating the Chinese people. Obama should take a lesson from the Cold War: American Presidents criticized Soviet leaders while demonstrating respect for average Soviets - and winning Soviet hearts and minds in the process. Obama could make clear that any China critiques apply only to the leadership; one way would be to simply replace mentions of China with references to the Communist Party in every State Department report. At the same time, he could boost U.S.-China person-to-person links by expanding student visas, opening more U.S. consulates in interior China and restoring State Department visitor...
...that I'll never go there." But now Europe is free from the Atlantic Ocean to the Black Sea, its peoples mingling happily, trading with each other, watching the same football games, sharing the same Aegean beaches. Hansa towns on the Baltic, once trapped in a frozen Soviet stubble, now bustle with energy; Poles revive Catholic churches in Ireland and Britain; Russians turn ski resorts in the French Alps into little St. Petersburgs...
...breeding ground for piracy, and the Cold War's end helped make that possible. "I can remember driving down the roads in Somalia, and you'd see all these scrap heaps of MiGs and tanks" from the 1969-1991 reign of Siad Barre, the Somali dictator allied with the Soviet Union, Zinni says. "During the Cold War, one side or the other kept authoritarian regimes in power who controlled this sort of thing...
...mentioned entering seven or eight new markets: what are the others? In addition to India and Mexico, the possibilities include countries like Ukraine, Slovakia, Croatia and Serbia. These are not huge markets but they're new markets for us. We're also discussing some of the former Soviet Republics, like Kazakhstan. Also South Korea, which is not a developing country, but it's a huge market. (Read "5 Best Places to Travel in a Recession...
...alike though in being chatty brainiac-megalomaniacs whose compulsion to explain exactly how they were going to kill Bond (and take over the world) gave him enough time to kill them. Although the novels and the early Bond movies took place during the Cold War, their villains were rarely Soviet operatives; they were closer to those freelance fruitcakes of pulp fantasy fiction, Fu Manchu and Ming the Merciless. Issuing dreadful warnings, plotting mass destruction from remote redoubts and sending their thugs to do the dirty work, the Scaramangas and Ernst Stavro Blofelds of Bond fiction could have been the secular...