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May 20, 2008
More than ever, we need able diplomats and negotiators to ensure that Canada is heard and listened to in international fora and diplomatic circles.
Canada’s declining role in Foreign affairs is closely related to the decline in prestige […]

Last Wednesday Night’s discussion encompassed lunar-based solar technology, reports by Kimon of exciting developments in the New School of Athens global governance initiative, the environment, the economy and, of course, acclamation of the publishing achievement that has given birth to The Metropolitain. It was a full and challenging evening which we […]

Although the early days of the campaign were regrettably short on serious exploration of issues and the candidates’ positions, their websites supply considerable information. However until the Democrats unite behind one candidate, we decided to follow the issues in one post, except for Foreign Policy and NAFTA. Later, there will be separate posts for each […]

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April 30 marks the hundred-day countdown to the Beijing Olympics - has everyone seen the news that China plans to clear out students and refugees from Beijing before the Games? Nothing being left to […]

For previous news and opinion see Pakistan, Benazir Bhutto’s assassination and the aftermath and Update

April 30, 2008
Pakistan’s planned accord with militants alarms U.S.
By ERIC SCHMITT AND MARK MAZZETTI
(IHT) With cross-border attacks into Afghanistan on the rise, Washington faces the fact that its options are now even more limited, in part because of the change of […]

Foreign Affairs, May-June 2008 issue
The era of U.S. hegemony is coming to an end and other powers are rising. In this issue of Foreign Affairs, Fareed Zakaria contrasts America’s dwindling power with the decline of the British Empire while CFR President Richard Haass examines the consequences of a nonpolar world. The United States can […]

April 11
Gwynne Dyer: Controversial flame has never burned brightly
(New Zealand Herald) What’s actually colliding here are two irreconcilable views of the world. For almost all Chinese, the turmoil in Tibet is a threat to national unity.
We were struck by the contrast of the two opinion pieces excerpted below (there will assuredly be many more) and, […]

See also: Candidates and Issues
April 10
Asia’s Republican Leanings
Roger Cohen
Europe votes Democrat, but Asia tends Republican.
That’s the headline from the fastest-growing part of the world where, as throughout a shrinking globe, the U.S. election is arousing passionate interest.
The three largest powers — China, India and Japan — have all had reasons to view Bush with favor, […]

June 5
Clinton Says V.P. Is Obama’s Choice
Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton today disavowed a campaign by some of her supporters to pressure Senator Barack Obama into choosing her as a running-mate, saying they were acting on their own and the decision on who to pick was “Senator Obama’s and his alone.”
Mr. Obama’s campaign responded in a […]

 
See also Tibet and The Olympic Protest Primer

April 24
China to clear out students, refugees before Olympics
Beijing - China plans to order all foreign students to leave the country before the Olympic Games in August, strictly regulate the issuing of business and tourist visas, and deport refugees, sources said on Thursday (April 17).
‘Even if you have […]