Landmark China-Taiwan Flight Thaws Ties, for Now

The Taiwan Strait may no longer be an unbridgeable gulf, as a China Airlines flight takes the first tentative steps towards a direct China-Taiwan connection. Will diplomatic overtures follow in the jet stream?
January 27, 2003

Time for Détente With Iran

The US stands to gain more from easing relations with Iran than continuing hostility
Ray Takeyh
April 3, 2007

After the Serial Blasts

Recent bombings in Bangladesh reveal how ill-prepared local authorities and intelligence agencies are to combat terror.
December 10, 2002

“Axis of Democracy” Flexes Its Military Muscles

Japanese and US military exercises in the Pacific may not convince China to slow its military spending
Hisane Masaki
April 4, 2007

The Northern Front

If Turkey continues vacilating on support for a US war on Iraq it could endanger its close alliance to the US and overall Middle Eastern stability.
William Safire
January 16, 2003
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