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The troop withdrawal plan is a political compromise that tries to appease both the domestic anti-war sentiment and the concerns of the military. Maybe after the election, the US will focus more on the war in Afghanistan.
Given the current and future challenges to our food supply and to the environment, sustainable intensification of agricultural production is emerging as a major priority for policymakers.
The earthquake, tsunami and nuclear leakage, or the triple disaster, have not only created the most severe postwar national crisis in Japan, but also affected neighboring countries, especially China and South Korea.
The outbreak of disease caused by a new strain of E. coli once again shows the increasing vulnerability of human beings to bacteria and viruses, which are getting deadlier and more resistant to antibiotics.
Japan's failure to work out a uniform and acceptable-to-all reconstruction plan even more than three months after the devastating earthquake and tsunami and the fierce power struggle in the country that followed have made its economic recovery more uncertain.
Clinton's criticism doesn't hold water, because in her dictionary, international standards are nothing but "Western standards", which come with political conditions - almost all Western aid for and investment in African countries have carried such conditions.
The increasing economic engagement between the BRIC countries and Africa has resulted in rising tension and claims of exploitation with a number of Africans describing the BRIC economies as the new neo-colonialists.
Unmoved by the international community's efforts to seek a peaceful resolution to the Libyan crisis, NATO has launched its heaviest ever bombardment against government installations in Tripoli.
French President Nicolas Sarkozy should be applauded for supporting a new initiative promoting strict transparency standards for petroleum, gas, and mining companies listed on European stock exchanges.
Europe's aim is no longer to become "the world's most competitive knowledge economy". Rather, it has shifted in a more urgent, complex, and inherently unforeseeable way, as spelled out in the vision of an "Innovation Union."
Sudan’s government, led by President Omar Hassan Ahmad al-Bashir, has taken a page from its Darfur playbook by waging war once again on civilians and their property.
Nigerians like political theater, particularly if it is loud, colorful, and has a rich cast of "good" and "bad" characters.
The crisis in Europe's southern neighborhood reflects a deep-seated transformation process that will have long-lasting consequences – for the region, for Europe, and for the world.
The young protesters of the Jasmine Revolutions of Tunisia and Egypt, many of them university graduates, overthrew the old regime because it impeded or blocked them from careers that would offer engaging work and the chance for personal growth.
Early this year, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) issued a special alert warning that North China, the country's wheat basket, was suffering from a severe winter drought that could devastate China's wheat harvest.
What we need is a bottom-up approach - creative cooperation mechanisms that may narrow the political divide in the long run.
The "US International Strategy for Cyberspace" is a shot across the bow for companies and countries who may harbor doubts about US government willingness to meddle and intervene in the Internet.
Even though China introduced political and economic reforms in Tibet, the West wants to concentrate on the Dalai Lama's side of the story.
Our only way out is the stakeholder concept. This means that the pursuit of our own interests can only be substantially realized by incorporating the interests of all those with whom we have a mutually dependent relationship.
Today, having faded as a result of advances that opened up the Americas and the East to European trade, the Mediterranean has a great opportunity to recover its lost prestige.
Since iPad2 went on sale in China on May 6, hundreds of iPad fans and scalpers queued up overnight at almost every Apple store. The craze even led to a violent incident in Sanlitun, Beijing. Do you think iPad2 is worth the hassle?
Beijing - Dressed in a crisp suit, Li Zhirui, sitting on the window seat of a Beijing bus, silently gazes at the European-style villas, luxury cars and illuminated shopping malls as they pass him by.