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C.I.A. Said to Find North Korean Nuclear Advances

July 1, 2003
For months, the US has been trying to convince Asian nations like China and South Korea that the threat from North Korea is urgent and necessitates a unified diplomatic effort. Now, American intelligence officials claim that within a year North Korea will have the ability to attach small nuclear...

China Expands Science Globalization Trends

March 15, 2010
Scientific research is now a worldwide endeavor, with researchers from multiple countries collaborating on projects. In recent years, Chinese authorities and academics have begun to take advantage of these possibilities, resulting in a growing network of global scientific research. A Sino-French...

Hungry for Votes

February 11, 2011
In 2008, in the face of rising food prices, G20 leaders founded the Global Agriculture and Food Programme to support research leading to a second Green Revolution and elimination of world hunger. But as food prices rise, pledges to support the program go unfulfilled. Activists and scientists urge...

EU Powers to Recognize Kosovan Statehood

February 18, 2008
After declaring its independence, Kosovo did not have to wait long for supporters and opponents to step forward. Britain, France and Germany announced they would recognize the new state, and US President George Bush expressed unofficial enthusiasm. But states with troublesome separatist movements...

Microsoft's Gates Sees Vietnam Outsourcing Potential

April 25, 2006
Vietnam’s economic growth, combined with a young population and high literacy rate, lures potential investors including the richest man in the world, Bill Gates. However, intellectual-property piracy also tends to run rampant in Vietnam and other nations with young impoverished populations....

欧亚心脏地带的全球化

February 29, 2012
将前苏联成员国的中亚诸国组织起来，看似一件轻而易举之事。哈德逊学院的高级研究员、政治－军事研究中心主任理查德•韦茨（Richard Weitz）认为，自1991年哈萨克斯坦获得独立以来，为经济目的和安全目的，推进区域一体化和全球一体化，一直是该国总统努尔苏丹•纳扎尔巴耶夫（Nursultan Nazarbayev）奋斗的目标。韦茨在报道中写道，目前为止，该国重点发展的项目包括改善区域交通、输油管道和通讯网络；降低关税和消除其它贸易壁垒；在加强劳动力流动方面的监管的同时，鼓励旅游业发展和其它非官方的货币兑换；推动哈萨克斯坦私营企业向其他欧亚国家投资，尤其是通过合资企业向这些国家投资。然而，...

Ayatollahs in the Backyard

December 1, 2009
At a time when he is under pressure domestically and around the world, Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s recent visit to Latin America – highlighted by a stop in Brazil – provided him an important boost. Iran has been involved with some ideologically-sympathetic countries in the region like...

Farm Deal Puts WTO Talks at Risk

August 14, 2003
The US and the EU spoke optimistically about their new agreement on farm subsidies last night, but many developing countries doubt whether tangible change will result. Agricultural reform has been an extremely contentious issue in the WTO, often dividing the developed and the developing worlds....
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