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Related Justrecently Story: Dear Fenqings
My good friend Taide brought an article to my attention: “Can Fenqing or Angry Youths Think for Themselves?”
The Can Fenqing or Angry Youths Think for Themselves article (in the following: angry article or angry author) refers to an earlier article by Jamil Anderlini in the Financial Times.
I have no doubt that [...]

NIC stands for National Intelligence Council, a center for mid-term and long-term strategic thinking and advising the Director of National Intelligence (DNI). It published a document that caught a lot of global attention - sfgate carries a review of press reactions to it on November 20.
Global Trends 2025 - A Transformed World - comes in [...]

JR: Hermit the Taoist Dragonfly is the authoritative expert on issues like Buddhism, Falun Gong, India, imperialism, the righteousness of the Chinese Communist Party, science, Taiwan, Taoism, Tibet, and the calamitous way Western media steer otherwise happy, nice and peaceful people into terrorist madness. Thank you very much for bestowing this opportunity for an interview [...]

The Economist has collected predictions for the year ahead - articles and comments about expected developments around the world.
James Miles of the Economist writes about China after the Olympics. Kevin Rudd believes that medium-sized countries like Australia can lead by example on issues such as financial stability, climate change, and development.
We may also pick one [...]

An Indian navy ship has destroyed a suspected Somali pirate vessel after it came under attack in the Gulf of Aden, according to BBC News. The BBC website also carries a report describing how piracy is hurting India.
And the Somali pirates’ side of the story is here: “We don’t consider ourselves sea bandits. (…) We [...]

“I’ve looked recently at some of the research findings about attitudes to international affairs in America and Europe, and the thing which is most encouraging is the finding that the majority of Americans, even after the Iraq war, want Europe to play a larger part in sharing in world leadership. They even want that when [...]

About Barack Obama
I’ve been passionately interested since early in the primaries. I started writing about Senator Obama and supporting him, I guess, quite early. Partly because he is such an intelligent and cool cucumber. I thought the way he responded early on to the Pastor Wright affair was quite extraordinary. Normally what happens with politicians these [...]