For years, Scott Ritter, chief UN inspector in Iraq from 1991 to 1998, has maintained that Iraq's nuclear weapons program was defunct. Current evidence from David Kay's investigation suggests that Ritter was right. Yet Kay stated in his report on the Iraqi Survey Group's progress...
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Writing from Shanghai, New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof says that what worries him isn't China’s growing military prowess, but the fervent nationalism the government has cultivated among its youth. Kristof believes Chinese attitudes towards the Japanese exemplify the destabilizing...
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P巴基斯坦慢慢陷入一片混乱，这是作家和记者艾哈迈德•拉希德（Ahmed Rashid）在过去几年中所记载的情景，而在这一周由于巴基斯坦军方对位于南瓦齐里斯坦的巴基斯坦塔利班基地发起进攻，这种混乱到了重要关头。由于对放肆的恐怖袭击有所警觉而发动的最近这次进攻，只是冰山一角。正如拉希德在其文章中所生动展示的那样，局势的复杂性来源于巴基斯坦内部那些主要角色之间繁复的关系。巴基斯坦军方只是在经受了一连串自杀式袭击以及军队指挥部遭到一次令人尴尬的围攻之后，才最终发动对巴基斯坦塔利班的进攻。但军方不是在攻击那些他们已经与之周旋了多年的旧敌。许多武装分子与巴基斯坦军方及情报局都有联系，或者是从中得到训练。...
马德里：仅11天内就发生9起自杀式袭击，造成150人死亡，其中包括许多安全部队的人员。在此之后，巴基斯坦军方终于对巴基斯坦塔利班驻扎地——南瓦齐里斯坦发动了等待已久的进攻。其时，巴基斯坦文官与军方之间存在严重分裂，而且华盛顿也争论未决、举棋不定。在这样的背景下，这次进攻的成功对财政崩溃和政治瘫痪的巴基斯坦的命运至关重要。
巴基斯坦军方和文官政府再次在一系列问题上意见相左，包括对美国与对印度的政策、俾路支人的叛乱，以及如何处理与塔利班有关系的旁遮普（Punjabi）武装群体。此外，...
The United States under Donald Trump targets China with protectionist policies with little regard to how these may harm close allies or traditional trade partners. China and other US trade partners may have assumed that the United States would tread carefully to avoid harming its own companies and...
War counsel: Hardline US Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer has President Trump ‘s ear, and China stands atop a steel glut
STOCKHOLM: In his book Fear, journalist Bob Woodward suggests that Donald Trump’s protectionist instincts may be...
The perceptions of national identity vary sharply among and within countries, especially between urban and rural areas. “A Pew Research Center survey finds that people generally place a relatively low premium on a person’s birthplace: Only 13 percent of Australians, 21 percent of Canadians, 32...
Will the real McCoy stand up? Some might ask who is Brazilian, left, while Japan faces a growing generation gap>
WASHINGTON: The tide of people moving across the world as immigrants or refugees has sparked concern in the developed world – from...
Women represent nearly half the world’s population yet confront inequities that include dowry requirements, female infanticide and sex-elected abortions as well as with health, poverty, education and domestic violence. Women should understand that globalization favors self-reliant and self-...
Burkina Faso’s ambassador to the UN, Dieudonné Desiré Sougouri, wrote a letter for 54 African countries calling for “urgent debate” from the UN Human Rights Council on systemic racism, police brutality, human rights violations against people of African descent and the attacks against peaceful...
Ernesto Zedillo, director of the Yale Center for the Study of Globalization and former president of Mexico, recently visited China, where he attended a regionally important Asian economic conference. In this column in Forbes Magazine, he pens his impressions of China's economic development,...
I recently spent ten days in China, where I attended, among other meetings, the Boao Forum, China's quite new, but already regionally important, annual Asian economic conference. I listened--both in public and in...
