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...news from elsewhere in Lebanon last week was equally discouraging. A standoff continued between President Amin Gemayel and Christian militiamen who oppose many of his policies. In the port city of Sidon, the arrival of Lebanese army forces did not halt two weeks of fighting between Christian and Muslim gunmen in which more than 90 people have been killed. In southern Lebanon, Israeli forces continued their painful withdrawal, which they hope to complete by the end of May. Behind them, as part of the upheaval produced by the 1982 invasion, they are leaving a Shi'ite guerrilla movement of undetermined...
...identified China as a ?strategic rival,? and the complexities - and perils - of the relationship were underscored on April Fool's Day of that year, when a U.S. spy-plane collided with a Chinese interceptor and made a forced landing on Chinese territory in Hainan. The tense ten-day standoff that followed appeared to symbolize the inevitability of a collision between Beijing's rising strategic ambitions and Washington's traditional policing role in the Asia-Pacific region. But the attacks of 9/11 shifted Washington's foreign policy focus for the next three years almost entirely to the Middle East...
...vexing turn of events in the nuclear standoff between North Korea and the U.S. [Feb. 21] could resurrect history: the Cuban missile crisis. Khairul Amri Bin Mohd Sidik Singapore...
...self-imposed 1999 moratorium on long-range missile testing, and blamed the "hostile policy" of the U.S. toward Pyongyang for compelling it to boost its "self-defensive nuclear arsenal." The move came amid ongoing efforts to persuade North Korea to rejoin six-nation talks aimed at ending its nuclear standoff with Washington. MEANWHILE IN SWITZERLAND ... Cut the Grass No more munchies for Swiss farm animals now that a law banning the use of hemp as fodder has come into force. The ban was prompted by fears that traces of cannabis, which is derived from the plant, might find their...
...Japan's new stance won't alter the fundamentals of the nearly 60-year cross-strait standoff, and isn't likely to nix what appears to be a minor thaw between Beijing and Taipei. The recent Lunar New Year holiday saw the first nonstop commercial flights between the mainland and Taiwan, and last week Taiwan President Chen Shui-bian made a pact with James Soong, a rival politician who wants better ties with China, not to declare independence, change Taiwan's formal name from the Republic of China, or rule out eventual unification with China...