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...radically diminished as a global player. If the 21st century rhymed, China would be the new us - feverish with individual and national drive, manufacturer to the world, growing like crazy, bigger and much more populous than the reigning superpower. And our next half-century would, according to the analogy, unfold like Britain's in the first half of the 20th century, requiring a downsizing of our national ambitions and self-conception...
...faced, Renzi was first featured in TIME three years ago when I profiled Italy's crippling generation gap ahead of the 2006 poll that pitted Romano Prodi against Berlusconi, two candidates then pushing 70. We caught up again last summer when Renzi was watching Barack Obama's unlikely story unfold and preparing to defy the party bosses in Florence and Rome with his bid for the mayoralty. "Everyone was telling me to stay put, that the smart move was to run for another term at the province," Renzi says. "I said 'no thank you. I'm running for mayor...
...formation of a government under Netanyahu is going to unfold slowly and uncertainly and will be determined largely by local political concerns impervious to outside influence. Most likely, they will produce a weak government unwilling and unable to pursue any political objectives with an equally unstable Palestinian government, unified...
...Duch”—has finally been brought to trial.While in charge of a notorious Khmer Rouge prison camp in the late 1970s, Duch oversaw the systematic mass murder of approximately 15,000 inmates. Now he sits in a Phnom Penh courtroom, watching his own fate unfold. Some might say that the actions of an evil but long-gone Cambodian regime 30 years ago have little bearing on the world of today. But the Khmer Rouge’s brutal genocide, which eliminated about one-fourth of Cambodia’s population, deserves to be prosecuted accordingly. Even...
...anniversary, many Tibetans conducted a widespread campaign of civil disobedience this Lunar New Year against authorities in other heavily Tibetan areas of China, like Qinghai, where around half of the country's 6 million ethnic Tibetans live. And with a probable boycott of Lunar New Year celebrations set to unfold inside Tibet, where the 15 days of festivities begin on Feb. 25 in accordance to the Tibetan lunar calendar, tension is likely to rise further. Even Chinese officials have said they can't rule out an outbreak of trouble, blaming the Dalai Lama for fomenting unrest. Tensions could peak closer...