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...sacrificing its relationship with China to domestic politics, and calls for retaliation were widespread. "The Obama administration is doing a favor for Big Labor in the U.S., but China now has to make choices of its own," blasted an editorial in the Beijing-based daily Global Times. "A trade war would be regrettable, but creating a long-term deterrent to U.S. protectionism may require retaliation." (See pictures of China's electronic waste village...
...This controversy about the prohibition of Nazi symbols is merely a form of window dressing. The awful truth is that most war criminals have never been tried or punished. In many cases they simply returned to their normal lives and professions in German society. Hence it is not surprising that the hunt for these by now aging war criminals still goes on today. That's why Germany's "constant struggle to distance itself from its past" might mean it is doomed never to escape it. Roger Jansoone, ICHTEGEM, BELGIUM...
...Rasmussen's sense of urgency is understandable. He wants to remake the world's most powerful military alliance, born from the ashes of World War II and shaped by its frontline role in the Cold War, into something that's "relevant in today's world." NATO will continue to be the guarantor of territorial defense for member states, he says, but it must also become "a provider of global peace and stability" by targeting threats - terrorism, piracy - in distant lands. It needs to be more flexible and agile, and should work more closely and more smartly with civilian institutions like...
...None of those notions is new; all of them, indeed, have been discussed ad nauseam since the end of the Cold War. But Rasmussen seems to understand that if NATO does not act on such ideas soon, the irrelevance that has haunted it will become a reality. "The challenge," Rasmussen told TIME in his first sit-down interview since taking office, "is to transfer [those ideas] into political practice." (See pictures of The Cold War's Influence...
...though, the reporters' ghosts have risen again to haunt the governments of both Indonesia and Australia. On Sept. 9, Australia's Federal Police announced a war-crimes investigation into their deaths. Says Gary Cunningham's brother Greig: "We don't believe in the death penalty, but we want to see the people responsible face justice. They should be prosecuted on the evidence we now know." (Read "A Last Meeting with East Timor's Rebel Leader...