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...Mandela are of course familiar to me, but now I understand and appreciate the history, importance and indelible impact of these people and events. In 20 years' time I look forward to your issue on the significant events from 2009 that would shape our world. Obama's presidency? The global financial crisis? Twitter? Only TIME will tell. Anjali Parbhoo, MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA...
...pair of shoes when electing Rudd back in late 2007. Great marketing in the purest sense. As a result of flash-in-the-pan stimulus packages, we are saddled now with terrifying, record debt. Rudd has also been lecturing other countries on how to wrestle with global challenges - and perhaps is given a fleeting audience in China and the U.S. But trying to be all things to all people in the end makes you nothing to everyone. Please put on the cover of TIME whichever future Australian PM is able to truly restore our international credibility and the disciplined economic...
...Mandela are of course familiar to me, but now I understand and appreciate the history, importance and indelible impact of these people and events. In 20 years' time I look forward to your issue on the significant events from 2009 that would shape our world. Obama's presidency? The global financial crisis? Twitter? Only TIME will tell. Anjali Parbhoo, Melbourne, Australia...
China's wide-ranging state-secrets law has been used to prosecute economic crimes before, but usually in cases involving people seen as threats to the ruling Communist Party. Turning it on China's foreign partners, Western observers say, could undermine global commerce. Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd, who has made a point of burnishing his country's links to China, said the detention of Hu jeopardizes China's trade relations with his nation and the rest of the world...
...Qaeda in Pakistan and Afghanistan, and to prevent their return to either country in the future." That goal does not necessarily require the defeat of the Taliban per se - a goal that many analysts have long deemed unrealistic. Many key Taliban leaders have little truck with bin Laden's global vision, seeing their own jihad as entirely local in its scale and objectives. Even in 2001, many were unconvinced that their own fate should be tied to bin Laden's, often resenting the presence of al-Qaeda's Arabs in their midst. Today's Taliban insurgency is diffuse, united mostly...