Word: powers
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...China's entry into the World Trade Organization. China agreed to open its markets to a vast basket of U.S. goods and services, dramatically lowering tariffs on almost everything. In return, the U.S. agreed to grant China the same permanent normal trade status every other major economic power enjoys. If Congress does not approve the China trade bill, the U.S. will be the only major economic power without normal trade relations with Beijing...
...shambles there now--a false peace broken, power-mad rebels imperiling a U.N. mission as they reignite a vicious civil war--defies the international community's good intentions. Many are rushing to tack another "failure" to the list of ill-fated operations from Somalia to Rwanda to Bosnia. The credibility of U.N. peacekeeping is under siege again and so is the wisdom of Secretary-General Kofi Annan's--and the Clinton Administration's--doctrine of humanitarian intervention...
...handing Sankoh and his Revolutionary United Front amnesty, four seats in the government and control over the country's rich diamond mines. In return, the rebels were supposed to disarm and behave. Instead, the amnesty emboldened them; they sold smuggled diamonds for fresh weapons; they got ready to grab power. The slapdash pact assumed Sankoh actually wanted peace, trusting in the good faith of a brutal tyrant...
...self-proclaimed savior's speeches are filled with religious imagery, claims of divine apparitions and stories of supernatural powers--not needing food, for example, because heaven sustains him. But his R.U.F. feeds on earthly stuff: the illegal sale of diamonds smuggled out through neighboring Liberia. Sankoh has ties to that country's President, Charles Taylor, whom he met in Libya during military training in the '80s and who also blasted his way to power. Sankoh may be moving his base to Liberia...
...Jefferson certainly wanted to do justice to the Indians. But he knew the white man needed to instill fear in the Indian or the American experiment would fail. How characteristically Jefferson: an offhanded trope that sublimely captures the central tension of all foreign policy--that between morality and necessity, power and principle...