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...ominous as this sounds for Detroit, the flipside is that China represents one of the most promising markets for its products. General Motors' market share in China grew to 12.2% through the first nine months of 2006. GM's main Chinese joint-venture partner, Shanghai Automotive Industry Corp., produces Buicks, Chevrolets, even luxury Cadillac CTS sedans, and in 2006 GM's Chinese sales surged 32% to 876,000 cars and trucks, helping fuel profits in GM's Asia-Pacific region. GM expects sales in China to top 1 million units this year - making it one of the few fast-growing...
...Association of Burma, and turned his land into the most secretive and reclusive place this side of North Korea. And ever since the brutally suppressed popular uprising of 1988, more and more foreigners have tried to isolate the country still further, through the sanctions called for by Burma's main opposition figure, Aung San Suu Kyi. Meanwhile, the country's 47 million people suffer through what Thant Myint-U calls both "the longest-lasting military dictatorship in the world" and "the longest-running armed conflict in the world," a civil war involving a tangle of groups...
...Abbas on Sunday declared Hamas's main Gaza security force illegal, while his key security strongman, Mohammed Dahlan, vowed that for every Fatah member killed in the internecine confrontation, his own men would kill two Hamas men. The Islamists responded by vowing to double the size of their security forces and to fight any attempt to disarm them or to oust the government. Following Fatah's mass rally on Sunday in Hamas's Gaza stronghold, Hamas is planning later this week to hold similar shows of strength on the streets of key West Bank cities, traditionally Fatah's stamping ground...
...Maliki himself. Although he nominally heads an all-party, national unity government, al-Maliki is a Shi'ite partisan, and he has pursued a blatantly sectarian course in the eight months since he was sworn in, antagonizing Sunnis and allowing Shi'ite militias to run amok. His main political backing comes from Moqtada al-Sadr, the firebrand leader of the most dangerous militia, the Mahdi Army. In his speeches, al-Maliki routinely promises to deal firmly with the militias, but in practice, he has always shielded them from American arms. When U.S. forces have tried to crack down...
...news agency correspondents or freelancers. There is still an air of improvisation on the set and frequently on the screen, which features more people talking about the news than it does innovative news-gathering. On the other hand, Gosset has kept his anchor spot for the channel's main talk show, and Saint-Paul, his replacement, insists he's still pushing for journalistic improvements. "The criticism of the birth will soon be forgotten," says Saint-Paul. "Our progenitor was Chirac, but that's not a label that will stick to us forever...