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...North Korea into negotiations to end its nuclear-weapons program, attending a Group of Eight meeting of the world's capitalist powers and leading the developing world to demand more benefits from the World Trade Organization in September. Now comes a space effort designed to generate national pride and display the country's vigor. Along the way, Beijing will pick up military technology and, no doubt, some catchy consumer items to match the smoke detectors and cordless vacuum cleaners born of NASA. Above all, the piloted space program is good propaganda. "Just as England went to North America and made...
...lots of places, it is perfectly legal to own a tiger as a pet. If you put it on display, you would need a permit from the U.S. Department of Agriculture plus any that are required in that state. But no federal law prevents you from having a pet tiger, and only 20 states forbid big-cat ownership entirely (though many cities, including New York, do have local bans). A bill before the U.S. Senate would ban interstate and foreign commerce in big cats, except for circuses, zoos and other facilities like wildlife sanctuaries. But even that would not prohibit...
...Nowhere has this newfound confidence been on display more than in China's rapidly improving international relations. Under communist rule, Chinese foreign policy had often been marked by suspicion and a certain belligerent petulance. But in the past few months, under Hu's leadership, Beijing has emerged as an increasingly sophisticated and mature player on the global stage, a power more intent on diplomatic pragmatism that preserves the country's robust economic growth than on replaying the Maoist rhetoric of confrontation. "Hu puts more emphasis on substance in foreign policy rather than on symbols," says Chu Shulong, director...
...That newly responsible attitude was on display on Oct. 12, when Foreign Minister Li Zhaoxing chatted on the phone with U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell about the U.N.'s role in postwar Iraq. China traditionally used its permanent seat on the U.N. Security Council as a lectern for delivering anti-Western rhetoric and to protect its own narrow interests. But in his phone conversation, Li reiterated the need for everyone, including the U.N., to work on rebuilding Iraq?a break from the past, when China would have sniped from the sidelines about "American imperialism" as it did during...
...first-ever official Marriage Protection Week, an entire week dedicated to upholding the social norm that marriage is a union solely between a man and a woman. An alliance between the White House and the religious right-wing is charged with executing this new national celebration in a display that seems to result in a demonization of the bisexual, gay, lesbian and transgender (BGLT) community and our struggle for equality...