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Still, courting the Chinese is important, we feel, for China’s cooperation is crucial in establishing a united global front against Iranian nuclear intransigence. Russia is another such crucial ally, hence our praise for Obama’s decision to scale back the U.S. missile defense program in Poland as a sign of goodwill toward the Russians. This choice was particularly sensible given the expensiveness and relative uselessness of such missile-defense programs. Obama’s efforts to please Russia ostensibly paid off when Russian President Dmitry Medvedev verbally backed the concept of sanctions against Iran...

Author: By The Crimson Staff | Title: Rays of Hope | 5/27/2010 | See Source »

Although I grew to love many things at Harvard over the years, I loved most the conversations I had with my friends, classmates, housemates, tutors, teaching fellows, and professors. Every conversation I had helped me think—about mothers in China and daughters in Russia, about the bonds between people and between molecules. I thought about new ideas and old ideas in new ways. Maybe the value of having conversations is obvious even to freshmen, but it can’t be fully appreciated until the end of senior year, when one has grown as much...

Author: By Alina Voronov | Title: Feet Pointed Upward | 5/26/2010 | See Source »

What is particularly threatening about the reality of an Iran with nuclear weapons is its relationships with half a dozen terrorist groups. Whereas North Korea, or even Soviet Russia, would more likely and more rationally avoid mutually assured destruction, a radical zealot is liable to attack an American city without regard to his or her future...

Author: By Eric T. Justin | Title: It’s Time to Brandish the Big(ger) Stick | 4/29/2010 | See Source »

While the United States has been implementing sharper trade sanctions, the economies of Germany, China, Russia, and the United Arab Emirates have reaped the benefits of a larger share of Iranian trade. President Obama recognizes that in order to provide truly effective economic sanctions they must be multilateral and, most importantly, include China and Russia.  He has recently discussed economic sanctions with both Chinese President Hu Jintao and Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev. Both nations have proven unreliable on this issue in the past and furthermore, if Iran is truly only a month, or perhaps months, from developing...

Author: By Eric T. Justin | Title: It’s Time to Brandish the Big(ger) Stick | 4/29/2010 | See Source »

ElBaradei also addressed positive new developments in arms control, particularly Obama’s recent weapons control agreement with Russia. But he expressed worries regarding the unsustainable status quo and the “deadly combination of extremism” in the Middle East...

Author: By Thomas J. Hwang, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: ElBaradei Expresses Hope for Nuclear-Free World | 4/28/2010 | See Source »

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