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The word on Chinese princelings
Normal 0 false false false EN-US ZH-CN X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 On Dec. 26, the Wall Street Journal and Bloomberg both published exposés on the intersections between business and politics in the Chinese government. Bloomberg's article focused...
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Thu, Dec 27 2012 3:20 PM
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Benghazi panel rebuts conspiracy theorists
My colleague Josh Rogin has a more complete and straightforward writeup of this report , an independent look at the State Department's handling of the Sept. 11 attack that killed U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans, over at The...
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Tue, Dec 18 2012 8:07 PM
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Strictly 4 everyone: Why do Kremlin apparatchiks, African rebels, and the Vatican all love Tupac?
Tom Friedman's column today reveals the Vladislav Surkov, the deputy prime minister and political strategist known as "Putin's Machiavelli," is actually more of a " Makaveli ": Surkov, once described as Putin’s Machiavelli...
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Wed, Dec 19 2012 11:27 AM
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Born Free, But Not Indifferent - By Corey Brettschneider
Yes the government should protect free speech. But that doesn’t mean it shouldn’t speak out. Read More...
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Wed, Dec 12 2012 8:29 AM
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How the face of the Syrian regime betrayed Assad over Twitter
Christmas, it seems, came early for Western governments looking to strike a blow about Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's regime. Following reports that former Syrian spokesman Jihad Makdissi had fled to Washington, a well-known activist released...
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Tue, Dec 25 2012 6:38 AM
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WikiLeaked: The Kerry plan for Iran
If Sen. John Kerry is confirmed as secretary of state, one of the first issues to cross his desk will be Iran's nuclear program. Kerry has discussed the issue before. We've pored over the WikiLeaks cables, which paint a broad portrait of Kerry's...
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Fri, Dec 21 2012 1:28 PM
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Get up to speed on John Kerry
It seems to be official -- President Barack Obama will nominate Massachusetts senator and fomer presidential candidate John Kerry to be the 68th U.S. secretary of state. We'll have plenty more coverage of Kerry in the days to come, but here are a...
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Fri, Dec 21 2012 9:01 AM
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What's stopping Queen Elizabeth from seizing power?
Queen Elizabeth attended a cabinet meeting today , becoming the first British monarch to do so since the American revolution and receiving a set of placemats in thanks. (The Foreign Office was a bit classier, naming part of Antarctica after her.) As BBC...
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Tue, Dec 18 2012 2:08 PM
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China's political geology
Japan and China have generally based their claims to the Senkakus/Diaoyus on past treaties and historical records. But it seems that Beijing is calling in the geologists : After making its first aerial incursion into Japanese-controlled airspace near...
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Wed, Dec 19 2012 2:26 PM
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Morning Brief: Syrian rebels gain ground in Hama province
Syrian rebels gain ground in Hama province Top news: Syrian rebels gained ground in the central Hama province on Thursday, taking control of parts of the strategic town of Morek, which lies along the route from Damascus to Aleppo. Victory over President...
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Fri, Dec 21 2012 5:30 AM
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Kerry will take risks
The more I think about it, the more I think John Kerry was a great choice for Obama's second-term secretary of state. Granted, he wasn't the president's first choice. But Obama may have stumbled into a pretty good decision. The main reason...
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Mon, Dec 24 2012 9:01 PM
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Morning Brief: U.N. envoy calls for transitional government in Syria
U.N. envoy calls for transitional government in Syria Top news: After meeting with President Bashar al-Assad and other top Syrian officials in Damascus, international envoy Lakhdar Brahimi called for the establishment of a transitional government in accordance...
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Thu, Dec 27 2012 5:37 AM
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Morning Brief: South Korea elects first female president
South Korea elects first female president Top news: Park Geun-hye, daughter of former authoritarian leader Park Chung-hee, was elected president of South Korea. She will be the country's first female president and is expected to take office in February...
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Thu, Dec 20 2012 5:43 AM
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Egypt's political crisis
President Mohamed Morsi and his advisors cannot have expected that his November 22 constitutional declaration would throw Egypt into a renewed state of turmoil. That it has speaks volumes to the immense changes that have occurred in the country during...
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Mon, Dec 10 2012 6:48 AM
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Morning Brief: Putin signs ban on U.S. adoptions
Putin signs ban on U.S. adoptions Top news: Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed into law a bill that makes it illegal for Americans to adopt Russian children. Russian lawmakers had initially drafted a law that mirrored the U.S. Magnitsky Act Read...
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Fri, Dec 28 2012 5:55 AM
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