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...uniform experience with Pakistan's generals over the years. Washington's Cold War entanglements with the top brass in Islamabad eventually spawned, with disastrous consequences, the Afghan Taliban. In the war against terrorism, the Pakistan military - with its historic ties to the region's jihadis - has been at once the U.S.'s most essential ally and its most troublesome obstacle. Enter General Ashfaq Kayani, the current army chief. His presence in talks between a Pakistani delegation and top officials in the U.S. capital overshadowed that of his country's civilian Foreign Minister - a sign of who still calls the shots...
...1980s, it's been a tried a true strategy: Tell your trading partner to give you something, because you might not be able to hold back the heathen protectionists in Congress. However hoary a tack it may be, that doesn't make it any less true. Democrats in Washington are very nervous about November's mid term elections, and 'jobs' is the number one issue...
...edges of this debate, but most agree that a big employment impact is unlikely given a RMB rise of, say, 10% over the next year or two. "The thread between the two [revaluation and jobs] is very, very thin," says Derek Scissors, an economist at the Heritage Foundation in Washington. "No currency revaluation of any feasible size will create more than a few thousand American jobs.'' (See pictures of U.S. Presidents in China...
...national-security priority, and last year he vowed that the U.S. would secure all vulnerable nuclear material within four years. On April 12, in one of the year's most important international meetings, Obama will host more than 40 heads of state for a nuclear-security summit in Washington, where he will rally support for that goal. A main thrust will be promoting the U.S. program to make HEU safe forever by sending it to U.S. or Russian facilities where it can be engineered into a form of uranium that cannot be used in bombs...
Bakiyev replaced Akayev with a stated agenda of reforming the country and ending corruption, but did little to act on those promises. His regime continued an earlier practice of playing foreign powers against each other - accepting lavish handouts from both Washington and Moscow to accommodate their military installations on its soil, while also tying up lucrative infrastructure projects with Chinese state companies. Yet, by some estimates, half of Kyrgyzstan's economy is tied to the black market; there are signs also of deepening links with organized crime and drug running from Afghanistan and Tajikistan. International monitors questioned the fairness...