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...CGIS South. Schieffer discussed the major political, economic, and diplomatic changes taking place in Japan and the role America has played in them. “We are a Pacific nation,” he said, citing the enduring interest the U.S. will have in Japan’s sphere of influence in the future. Schieffer identified the U.S. as the region’s strongest ally. He also gave the US credit for some of the changes occurring in Japan. He described the extraordinary political developments of the last few years, such as the unprecedented privatization of Japan?...
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...Polish enterprises." He said he did not propose "grabbing the reserves of the central bank" or "destroying the E.U. accession treaty," but only wanted the bank to share "co-responsibility" with the government for the economy, so that it "should be awakened to make money to cover the social sphere." Growing animated, he added: "We are not announcing some kind of revolution." Ironically, the reforms Lepper and the Kaczynskis denounced on their way to power have made the economy so resilient that their fulminations have not managed to shake investor confidence. Political shocks such as questioning the central bank...
...believes in God. Having a multitude of religious opinions in a healthy public dialogue will not turn America into a theocracy but instead help create a consensus about our country’s shared values. Such a debate would be preferable to the monopolization of religion in the public sphere by the single version of Christianity promoted by the religious right.The alternative would be to silence both sides; that is, forbid Democrats and Republicans from bringing any sort of religious argument into the public debate which, at best, would compromise their freedom of speech, and at worst, would force politicians...
...taken in Moscow as a reminder of what it perceives as Washington's effort to reverse Russian influence in former Soviet territories. The "pastel" revolutions of recent years in Ukraine, Georgia and elsewhere have fed a sense that the U.S. is pushing its own influence into Moscow's traditional sphere of influence by supporting democratic rebellions against pro-Russian strongmen such as Belarus' leader Alexander Lukashenko. Russia has pushed back by pressuring allies in Central Asia to distance themselves from the U.S. - Uzbekistan, for example, asked the U.S. to close the main airbase servicing U.S. forces in Afghanistan after Washington...