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...dissolve failing banks "an illusion," since the sheer size of the institutions makes painless, prepackaged liquidation unlikely. He worries about loopholes that exempt certain highly profitable derivatives from federal oversight. But most of all, he believes the current Senate plan, which relies on the wisdom of bank regulators, won't prevent another crisis. "The sad reality is that regulators had substantial powers," he announced during another Senate-floor speech in March, "but chose to abdicate their responsibilities." (See the 10 greatest speeches of all time...
...Iran, the woes of U.S. companies in China and a rumbling unhappiness over China's mercantilism - can be passed over as normal strains. But no serious student of history would believe this. As China grows, as it scrapes against international norms and habits of a different era, the sparks won't stop coming from Beijing. Chinese cyberattacks, trade games, asymmetric-war experiments - all these are part of our future. They won't stop just because the Chinese are being friendlier this week. Nor will the fact that our actions, even ones intended to reassure China, will often unnerve...
...issued statements or interviews condemning the attacks, using them to take shots at rival groups. "The best solution for Iraq is that the winning political blocs should quickly form the new government without marginalizing any party," says political analyst Hussein al-Ja'af. He contends that the terrorism attacks won't derail the political process, though he warns that three days this month coincide with the birth and overthrow of Saddam Hussein and the establishment of the Baath Party and could bring more attacks. "They make violence to confuse people about the democratic experience that Iraqis have...
...after what was seen as the U.S.'s "ruthless undermining of Chinese dignity." The West needs to remember that this excitability among internal forces emerges as a result of China's success and not always because of what we do or don't do. It's an instinct that won't disappear in the face of U.S. concessions or growing Chinese wealth. If the U.S. keeps waiting for China to get rich enough or developed enough to buy easily into the American model of the world, then it will wait forever...
...force in diplomacy. In so many words, Hu's strategy suggests, China must use what strength it can to make sure it isn't being done to again. It wouldn't let itself be done to at the climate-change summit in Copenhagen - and it's determined that it won't be done to in currency markets...