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Such a confrontation occurred in 2005 when the two governments faced off over potentially rich underwater natural-gas and oil fields in the East China Sea. The deposits lie inside maritime territory claimed by both countries, and the dispute has so far prevented either from tapping the oil and gas...
Will Suffrage Cause Suffering? Re your article on Hong Kong's future [March 26]: Throughout much of its history, Hong Kong was not a democracy but flourished under a colonial administration run for the most part by civil servants. Is Hong Kong ready for universal suffrage? For a territory that...
Iraqi Kurds have been in control of their region since 1991, when, with the help of the U.S.-enforced no-fly zone, they drove Saddam's forces out of northern Iraq. But now, four years after the liberation of the rest of the country, Kurdish Iraq is undergoing an identity...
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice this week persuaded skeptical Congressional leaders to allow the U.S. to spend $43 million beefing up Palestinian security forces loyal to President Mahmoud Abbas. She countered Congressional concerns over aid reaching terrorists now that Abbas has bucked the U.S. by joining with Hamas in a...
The $43 million will mostly be devoted to training and equipping Abbas's 4,000-strong Presidential Guard, whose primary responsibilities are to protect the president and visiting dignitaries - such as Secretary Rice herself - and to guard the crossings into the Palestinian territory of Gaza at Rafah and Karni. But...