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Why India Fears China
Jeremy Kahn 10/10/2009 12:00:00 AM
On June 21, two Chinese military helicopters swooped low over Demchok, a tiny Indian hamlet high in the Hima-layas along the northwestern border with China. The helicopters dropped canned food over a barren expanse and then returned to bases in China. India's military scrambled helicopters to the scene but did not seem unduly alarmed. This sort of Cold War cat-and-mouse game has played out on the 4,057-kilometer India-China border for decades. But the incident fed a media frenzy about "the Chinese dragon." Beginning in August, stories about new Chinese incursions into India have dominated the 24-hour TV news networks and the newspaper headlines.
Why Obama Should Learn to Love the Bomb
Jonathan Tepperman 8/29/2009 12:00:00 AM
On Sept. 24, President Barack Obama will bring together 14 world leaders for a special U.N. Security Council meeting in New York. On the agenda: how to rid the world of nuclear weapons. The summit is the latest step in the administration's campaign to eliminate nukes, a priority Obama stressed on the campaign trail and formally announced in April during his speech in Prague. U.S. attempts to stop Iran from acquiring the bomb and to pry the weapons out of North Korea's fingers are also key parts of this campaign.
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5/30/2009 12:00:00 AM
To understand how Dear Leader managed the turnaround, it's important to debunk a few myths. First, the North Koreans haven't been living in caves for the past two decades. Instead, with help from Beijing, Pyongyang has revamped its outdated infrastructure, including important mining facilities. Second, the North doesn't have to rely on the black market to support itself. True, Pyongyang has sold missiles to Iran, Syria and Pakistan, but annual revenue from such exports is only about $100 million, and other illicit activities like drug trafficking and counterfeiting add very little to that sum.
AMERICA AND ITS IMAGE
Where Bush Was Right
David Frum 12/31/2008 12:00:00 AM
"Change" was the magic word of this year's campaign. In his speech to the Republican convention, John McCain—a 26-year Washington veteran—promised to change "almost everything" that the U.S. government does. Barack Obama, of course, put the word "change" into seemingly every campaign sign, TV ad, and sound bite.
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What Bush Got Right
Fareed Zakaria 8/9/2008 12:00:00 AM
Compared with the flutters and flurries of the near-daily polls in the presidential race, one set of numbers has stayed fixed for months, even years. President George W. Bush now enters his 23rd consecutive month with an approval rating under 40 percent. (It currently stands at 32 percent.) No matter what he does, or what happens in the world, the public seems to have decided that Bush has been a failure. As a result, both candidates are promising a change from the Bush presidency. Barack Obama, of course, promises a wholly different approach to the world. But even Bush's fellow Republican, John McCain, has on several issues suggested that he would depart from the administration's policies. McCain was last seen with the president at a fund-raiser more than two months ago at which no reporters or photographers were allowed.
Let's Calm Down
Michael Hirsh 10/19/2006 12:00:00 AM