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091037
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Every revolution inChinese history has started with the peasants. And no one is more aware of this than the ruling Communist Party-Mao Zedong's own assault on the citadels of power started with the mobilization of an agricultural army.
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091044
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Pakistan today confronts two key security challenges: a lethal Taliban insurgency and volatile nuclear relations with India. Though international attention has focused on the Obama administration's policies to address these challenges, the limits of American resources and influence in Pakistan require other states to collaboratively play a larger role. Pakistan's "all-weather" friend and neighbor, China, has historically enjoyed widespread credibility in Pakistan and has interests at stake there. Both factors could enable it to advance stability in Pakistan while promoting its own aim to become a diplomatic leader.
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091035
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2009.
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Somebody has rained on the Chinese Communist Party's parade. In the runup to Oct. 1, the 60th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic, China's netizens were enthralled by a 10,000-character essay calling for political reform. As propagandists saturated the media with paeans to the country's economic and technological achievements, this Internet manifesto lamented that "Stalinism is wreaking havoc on [China's] political, ideological and cultural construction."
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091039
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2009.
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The Democratic ProgressiveParty is rebuilding its support among Taiwan's voters after severe defeats in Taiwan's 2008 Legislative Yuan and presidential elections. The process began earlier this year with grassroots efforts such as rallies, a referendum drive, volunteerism and typhoon relief. The party is now developing new policies to attract independent, middle-class and working-class people hit hardest by the economic recession. The first results emerged on Sept. 26, when voters elected the DPP's Liu Chien-kuo to the Legislative Yuan from Yunlin County and defeated a Kuomintang-backed referendum on casinos in Penghu County.
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091043
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2009.
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During the 1950s, Stalinist planners (whose modest slogan was "We order the wind when to blow, the rain when to fall!") wanted to flip the direction of several voluminous north-flowing rivers of Western Siberia (Irtysh, Ob, Yenisei) and use them to change the Soviet Central Asia into an irrigated communist paradise. Fortunately, Stalin died and Khrushchev had other problems, but before 1960, the megaproject propensities of the Soviet experts working in Mao's China left a deep imprint on China's water engineers. Soviet experts helped plan a number of audacious water projects but only one, the first dam across the Huanghe, or Yellow River, at Sanmenxia, was completed before their withdrawal. The dam turned out to be a major disaster, and the rapid silting of the reservoir was solved years later only by creating large outlets at the dam's bottom and drastically reducing its electricity-generating capacity.
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091045
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2009.
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Waiting to meet Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in her suite in a Manhattan hotel, I hear a baby's cries coming from the bedroom. Ms. Hasina, an aide tells me, is feeding her grand-daughter and will be with me shortly. Ms. Hasina enters the room dressed elegantly in a lime-green sari, and settles into an armchair. Behind her is a framed photograph of her father, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, or "Father of the Nation," serving as a reminder of the bloody past of Ms. Hasina and of Bangladesh. The country's first prime minister after separation from what was then called West Pakistan, his wife and Ms. Hasina's three brothers were assassinated in 1975.
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091046
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2009.
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No country has risen to prominence with greater rapidity and less fanfare in recent years than Turkmenistan. Once Central Asia's most isolated backwater, the former Soviet satellite, host to enormous oil and gas riches and perhaps the region's most critical strategic perch, has redefined itself as the centerpiece of a new regional order, having become the most critical prize in a new "great game."
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091036
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2009.
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China's rise in the world in the last 30 years owes a lot to what it has learned from the West but, when it comes to "grand strategy," it has a home-grown tradition older and richer than any other. Its mere existence has become a weapon. Chinese strategists are intimidating because they are presumed to have a deep understanding of human nature, politics and diplomacy and how these enhance great national endeavors.construction."
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091041
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2009.
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The problem of North Korea has bedeviled policy makers in Washington for years. The notoriously opaque Stalinist state that sits above the 38th Parallel represents one of the world's most intractable security dilemmas. Starting this spring, however, the challenge posed by Pyongyang has grown more acute. The defiant series of nuclear and ballistic tests carried out by Kim Jong Il in May has brought into sharp focus the growing threat posed by the North's strategic arsenal-and precipitated a frenzy of international activity in response.
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091038
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2009.
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The Chinese Communist Party's recent high-level meeting-the Fourth Plenum of the 17th Central Committee-concluded with a call to "strongly support the leadership of the democracy of the people by the internal democracy of the Party." Given the lack of actual democracy in China at any level, this resolution, highlighted in press reports, suggests that the Chinese party is seeking a solution to a fundamental problem in its own way. Just like the Soviet Union in its waning years, China is now grappling with increasing social complexity and differentiation, ethnic and political, which threatens the monolithic power of the Party.
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091040
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2009.
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Such is the misfortune of war-scarred Sri Lanka that even after military victory in the civil war, the island nation is unable to find peace. Months after the Tamil Tiger guerrillas were crushed and their top leadership eliminated, Sri Lanka has done little to begin addressing the root causes of conflict or to outline a possible answer to the longstanding cultural and political grievances of the Tamil minority, which makes up 12% of the 21.3 million population. Consequently, the government risks squandering the hard-won peace. It will be a double tragedy for Sri Lanka if winning peace proves more difficult than winning the war.
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091042
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2009.
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In fall 2009, the international endeavor in Afghanistan finds itself in a crisis of confidence. A powerfully resurgent Taliban, escalating NATO casualties and an uncertain outcome to a deeply flawed Afghan election all are militating for a deep reappraisal of the entire international effort. Gen. Stanley McChrystal's assessment, that "the situation in Afghanistan is serious; neither success nor failure can be taken for granted" has further fueled the debate.
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