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...long-term costs of uncritically backing murderous regimes exceed the benefits of doing so. We must elevate human safety alongside consumer safety, expressing the same outrage over massacred civilians that we do about faulty toys. And governments sending athletes to China's Olympic "coming out" must shine the torch on its support for brutal regimes...
About 30 people gathered on the steps of Memorial Church Sunday to protest China’s continued investment in Sudanese oil, before heading to Boston to join a statewide rally and torch lighting ceremony that included such speakers as Massachusetts Congressman John F. Tierny...
...members, China has the most sway over Sudan because of its diplomatic and financial support for the regime. This Sunday, the Boston Olympic Torch Relay and Rally sponsored by Massachusetts Dream for Darfur will help keep the focus on China. As an emerging superpower and the host of the 2008 Olympic games, China has to think about its public image. But there will be no progress so long as the United States, the U.K., and France themselves fail...
April 2003: Saddam Hussein is on the run, and the sky over Baghdad is choked with black smoke as looters ransack and torch government buildings. But in one district, U.S. Marines stand guard on the steps of a large modern building, their weapons trained on the street and the footbridge outside. It is the Ministry of Oil. Let this treasure chest burn, the thinking goes, and Iraq goes with...
...After the announcement of his new cabinet Monday, a somber Abe appeared before reporters Monday night to show that he too was a changed man. The Prime Minister who swept into office carrying the reform torch of his predecessor Junichiro Koizumi described the changes as "unfortunate" and painful, but necessary. Moreover, during the 20-minute press conference, he wholly ignored the subject of constitutional amendment, and mentioned his other favorite subject, North Korean abductions, only after a reporter's prompting. "I believe the new cabinet has appropriate people placed in appropriate places," he told reporters. Jun Iio, a political science...