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...Today, Wang, who has chosen a Western name, Colleen, works in a gleaming office tower in the manufacturing center of Guangzhou in southern China. At age 37, she is the very image of a polished chief executive officer, right down to her Milano briefcase. Wang is the founder of an advertising agency that employs nearly 70 people in three Chinese cities and counts as customers major multinational companies including Procter & Gamble and Sony Ericsson. Like so many of her generation, Wang never looked back after racing through the door Deng's economic reforms opened, and her accomplishments show...
...even as the U.N. summit has begun to heat up, the E.U. will meet in Brussels to vote on its ambitious 20-20-20 plan, which aims to reduce greenhouse gases continent-wide 20% by 2020, while increasing renewable power 20% and reducing overall energy consumption 20%. Many Western European nations like France, which is currently the head of the E.U., favor the measure, but newer, poorer countries like Poland - and big industrial powers like Germany - are doubtful. If the E.U. can't present a unified front at Brussels, it won't be able to do so in Poznan...
...only German intelligent enough to explain the necessity of the Iraq war to the incredulous rest of the country. Nice to see he has overcome the embarrassment and feels strong enough to get it all wrong about Europe's "swooning" response to, and expectations of, Obama. Obama's Western European supporters deserved a more empathetic article than Joffe's complacent little outcry. Josef Werker, KREFELD, GERMANY
...Afghanistan has never had a strong central government. It has been governed for thousands of years by local and regional tribal coalitions. The tribes have often been at one another's throats - a good part of the current "Taliban" uprising is nothing more than standard tribal rivalries juiced by Western arms and opium profits - except when foreigners have invaded the area, in which case the Afghans have united and slowly humiliated conquerors from Alexander the Great to the Soviets...
...current Western presence is the most benign intrusion in Afghan history, and the rationale of building stability remains a logical one - but this war has become something of a sideshow in South Asia. The far more serious problem is Pakistan, a flimsy state with illogical borders, nuclear weapons and a mortal religious enmity toward India, its neighbor to the south. Pakistan is where bin Laden now lives, if he lives. The Bush Administration chose to coddle Pakistan's military leadership, which promised to help in the fight against al-Qaeda - but it hasn't helped much, although there are signs...