Word: westly
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...divided into foreign-run and Chinese-run districts. Now often called "old Shanghai," it gained fame as a place that foreigners could go to get a glimpse of mysterious China (while still enjoying the comforts of home) and Chinese could go to get a sense of the mysterious West (without leaving their native land). And go there many did. Some in person but more as armchair travelers, for old Shanghai was then what it is again now: a popular place to set films and novels...
...farm with a book on Asian archaeology. Rudd majored in Asian studies in college. Diplomatic postings in Sweden and China followed, and his internationalism captured a changing national mood. For the better part of two centuries, Australia's self-perception was that of a chunk of the West that unaccountably found itself floating in the South Pacific. Today, China is Australia's largest trading partner, with Japan second and four other Asian nations rounding...
Obama avoided any sense that American values and Islamic ones were in conflict. Instead, he offered a more porous vision of both Islam and the West, one in which "Islam has always been a part of America's story." Where Sarkozy rushed to define what the burqa meant ("subservience ... debasement"), Obama just cast the hijab as a personal choice, protected...
...Medvedev and his Foreign Minister, Sergei Lavrov, have said nuclear-weapons reductions are possible only if the U.S. drops its plans to expand its missile-defense shield into Eastern Europe. The U.S. argues that such defenses, including installations in Poland and the Czech Republic, are necessary to protect the West from a possible missile strike by Iran. The Russians don't buy that. The shield, it thinks, is designed to give the U.S. an edge against Russia. "We don't believe that any plans for [missile defense] have anything to do with the 'Iranian threat,'" Sergei Ryabkov, Russia's Deputy...
...financial crisis - the economy has expanded eight-fold. As oil prices rocketed, so did the country's self-confidence. Not content with presiding over the economic boom, then President (now Prime Minister) Vladimir Putin vowed to restore his country's great power status. Talk about a partnership with the West gave way to belligerent statements about a new Cold War. In the summer of 2008, Russian tanks trundled into Georgia. In early 2009, a dispute with neighboring Ukraine led Russia to cut off gas flows, leaving people in some European Union countries freezing and factories idle...