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Guest post: The many (imagined) lives of Xi Jinping

Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 BEIJING -- Where is Xi? On this, the eleventh day since Chinese Vice-President Xi Jinping has disappeared from public view, speculation has yet to abate over the senior leader's...

Published Wed, Sep 12 2012 10:03 AM by FP Passport

Filed under: China

Protesters storm U.S. embassy in Cairo

A number of old political traumas are colliding in Cairo tonight. On the anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, Salafist protesters broke into the U.S. embassy in Egypt and tore down the American flag outside, replacing it with the black flag similar to the...

Published Tue, Sep 11 2012 11:06 AM by FP Passport

Netanyahu blasts Obama administration ahead of election

Last week, I pointed out that Republicans and Democrats were both invoking Benjamin Netanyahu's statements to argue that the Israeli prime minister was on their side, even though Netanyahu himself has not explicitly expressed support for either Barack...

Published Tue, Sep 11 2012 12:22 PM by FP Passport

Filed under: Election 2012, Barack Obama

Morning Brief: Syria accuses protesters of opening fire on security forces

Syria accuses protesters of opening fire on security forces Top story: Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's regime claimed on Monday that 120 soldiers were killed by armed protesters in the town of Jisr al-Shughour, near the Turkish border. While activists...

Published Tue, Jun 07 2011 4:48 AM by FP Passport

Filed under: Morning Brief

Morning Brief: Syrian troops headed north to crush protests

Syrian troops headed north to crush protests Top news: Convoys of Syrian tanks and thousands of troops are on the move, headed north to pacify the restive Idlib province. Dozens have reportedly already been killed in the town of Jisr al-Shugour in a crackdown...

Published Wed, Jun 08 2011 5:33 AM by FP Passport

Filed under: Morning Brief

Why Spain should take the money and (as soon as it's economically prudent) run

As my colleague Uri Friedman discussed in today's Morning Brief , the Spanish government has unveiled tough new austerity measures to reduce its deficits after securing a nearly $37 billion bailout from the European Union. The measures, part of the...

Published Wed, Jul 11 2012 12:39 PM by FP Passport

China's Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Friend Circles

What happens in WeChat's private chats isn't staying there, and it has the government worried. Read More...

Published Wed, May 21 2014 2:59 PM by Foreign Policy

Filed under: Tea Leaf Nation

France issues arrest warrant for Equatorial Guinea heir

The party may be coming to an end for Teodorin Nguema Obiang, Equatorial Guinea's heir apparent and the world's richest minister of agriculture and forestry . The U.S. Justice Department filed a complaint against Teodorin, son of President Teodoro...

Published Fri, Jul 13 2012 9:48 AM by FP Passport

What the Weibots are saying about the Chinese congress

This is a guest post from Liz Carter, a DC-based author and translator of several Chinese textbooks: China's 18th Party Congress began yesterday; delegates from across the country gathered in Beijing, ostensibly to make important policy decisions...

Published Thu, Nov 08 2012 3:52 PM by FP Passport

Filed under: East Asia, China

Morning Brief: Assad vows to "live and die" in Syria

Assad vows to "live and die" in Syria Top news: While the opposition Syrian National Council met in Doha to elect a new leadership team, President Bashar al-Assad reiterated his intent to fight to the end, telling Russia Today, "I am tougher...

Published Thu, Nov 08 2012 6:10 AM by FP Passport

Filed under: Morning Brief

The best of the world leader congratulations

Most of the congratulations messages sent to Barack Obama from his fellow world leaders this week were pretty perfunctory. (See Angela Merkel , Hu Jintao , or Julia Gillard .) But a few did stand out. Russia's Vladimir Putin sent a telegram (telegram...

Published Thu, Nov 08 2012 8:15 AM by FP Passport

Decline Watch or Renewal Watch?

Since the election picked up, I've been remiss in updating our semi-regular " Decline Watch " feature, which charts examples of America's falling fortunes and reduced influence in the world. But after reading that America's newest...

Published Thu, Nov 08 2012 1:12 PM by FP Passport

Filed under: Decline Watch

Youth group produces ultimate Putin meme mash-up... with sexy ladies, of course

The New York Times reports that in honor of Russian President Vladimir Putin's birthday, "The Young Guard of the governing United Russia party released a video portraying Mr. Putin as a sex symbol fawned over by young women." But that description...

Published Wed, Oct 10 2012 9:35 AM by FP Passport

Golden Dawn still elevating the debate

Last time we caught up with Ilias Kasidiaris, Greek MP and spokesman for the neo-Nazi Golden Dawn party, he was assaulting a woman on a TV debate show for not agreeing with him. Today, he apparently caused a scene in parliament during a debate with the...

Published Fri, Oct 05 2012 11:01 AM by FP Passport

The global crises we'll resolve after Nov. 6

This week brought two related pieces of news. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov declared that the U.S.-Russian "reset" cannot "last forever" and suggested that the two sides "update the software" to avoid a "program...

Published Fri, Oct 05 2012 12:50 PM by FP Passport

Filed under: Election 2012, 2012 Election Poster 1

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Guest post: The many (imagined) lives of Xi Jinping

Protesters storm U.S. embassy in Cairo

Netanyahu blasts Obama administration ahead of election

Morning Brief: Syria accuses protesters of opening fire on security forces

Morning Brief: Syrian troops headed north to crush protests

Why Spain should take the money and (as soon as it's economically prudent) run

China's Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Friend Circles

France issues arrest warrant for Equatorial Guinea heir

What the Weibots are saying about the Chinese congress

Morning Brief: Assad vows to "live and die" in Syria

The best of the world leader congratulations

Decline Watch or Renewal Watch?

Youth group produces ultimate Putin meme mash-up... with sexy ladies, of course

Golden Dawn still elevating the debate

The global crises we'll resolve after Nov. 6