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...from its old friend, commercial partner and provider of military security, the U.S. Hatoyama's recent call for a "more equal" relationship with Washington raised concerns that the DPJ might tinker with sensitive issues like the relocation of American military bases in Japan, affecting the two nations' longstanding security pact. But DPJ leaders, who have little experience in international diplomacy, know they can't afford to upset the alliance, the cornerstone of Japanese foreign policy...
China has replaced the U.S. as Japan's leading trading partner, and Hatoyama has said he would like Japan to develop more of an "equal" relationship with its American ally. That has raised concerns that the DPJ might tinker with some aspects of its security pact with the U.S. Such fears are probably unfounded; everyone in Japanese politics knows the alliance with the U.S. is the bedrock on which Japanese security rests. But as China grows in strength politically and economically, it is inevitable that any Japanese government will want to have close relations with Beijing as well as Washington...
...morals or moderation," and criticized a "way of thinking based on the idea that American-style free-market economics represents a universal and ideal economic order." "The influence of the U.S. is declining," Hatoyama wrote, in a "new era of multipolarity." While saying that the "Japan-US security pact will continue to be the cornerstone of Japanese diplomatic policy" (of course!) he insisted that "the East Asian region.... must be recognized as Japan's basic sphere of being." Hatoyama, went so far as to call for the development of something like a European Union - with a single currency, no less...
...largely the fault of the U.S. Under former President George W. Bush, U.S. diplomats played an obstructionist role in climate-change talks, and even before Bush's arrival, the country failed to ratify the Kyoto Protocol - the international treaty intended to curb global warming. The U.S. Senate rejected the pact by a cool 95-0, and Bush later pulled it off the table for future consideration...
...activists uses creativity, humor and media savvy to draw the kind of attention it once took millions of marchers to muster. And here's the really radical thing: France's youthful demonstrators aren't just winning support for their various causes - they're challenging the very social and economic pact that has defined the country for the past 60 years...