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Therein lies the predicament for the regime. It has cast the street demonstrations as a supposedly Western-led, secular velvet revolution. But Shi'ites, who are the overwhelming majority of Iranian Muslims, believe that only an Imam's surviving lineage can accurately interpret his ideology. So to have so many Khomeinis jump ship set off alarms for the ruling hard-liners...
...People's Republic was cut off from the world, having diplomatic recognition only from a relatively small number of nations. It was excluded from the U.N. It soon became embroiled in the Korean War and the Cold War, which brought further isolation. Despite some marginal trade with Western Europe following the 1954 Geneva Conference on Indochina, China was cut off from international trade, finance and aid. As a result, its economy stagnated...
...world powers: the U.S., Russia and the E.U. It has transformed its regional diplomacy in Asia, reasserted a role in Africa and become much more deeply engaged with international organizations and across a range of global-governance issues. China used to eschew multilateralism, distrusting it as some kind of (Western) conspiracy. While Beijing remains a selective multilateralist globally - engaging on some issues and not others - the broad trend has been positive and in the direction of deeper contributions to the world community...
...last month's Afghan elections haven't helped. President Hamid Karzai was once the West's great hope for Afghanistan - stylish and urbane, deeply versed in Afghan politics but not completely part of it, he seemed the perfect man to lead his country out of its darkest days. But Western capitals have found him an unreliable and often frustrating partner. The election has "raised a question in people's minds," says Colonel Christopher Langton, senior fellow for Conflict and Defence Diplomacy at the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London. "Why should we be supporting such an individual and helping...
...person who sincerely and honestly seeks to create a better world should make every effort to bring about the change in this outlook. To help realize collective peace, viable peace, we need collective cooperation and efforts. In this midst the media has an important role to play. Some western country states have in the past few decades not taken a very favorable position vis-a-vis our region and specifically with regards to Iran, and they have adopted stances that at times would've been against Iran's national interest. These have marked bitter historical memories in the nation psyche...