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...Korea, as demanded by Pyongyang, is "off the table." (Even if the administration had been inclined to offer such a deal, it would not easily win ratification in the Senate.) Still, the very fact that Washington is now offering some form of security guarantee to Pyongyang is a significant shift in the U.S. position, in a direction advocated by Secretary of State Colin Powell and other administration doves - as well as by Washington's key partners in the six-way talks, China and South Korea...
...case of Iran, the most significant shift occurred in Tehran rather than Washington. But it has clearly been helped along by the key EU powers - including Britain's prime minister Tony Blair - and also, possibly, by the efforts of Jordan's King Abdullah to facilitate back-channel communication between Washington and Tehran. Unlike North Korea, which, if anything, exaggerates its nuclear weapons capability, Iran insists it has no clandestine bomb program. But IAEA investigations have found evidence of secret uranium enrichment facilities, and the UN nuclear watchdog had put Iran on notice to sign an agreement accepting more intrusive inspections...
...Perhaps the biggest shift in China's foreign policy lies in the way it handles Taiwan, which it considers a renegade province that must ultimately be reunited with the mainland. In 1996, when Taiwan's first direct presidential elections aroused concern on the mainland that democracy would draw the island further away from unification, Beijing reacted angrily by lobbing missiles over the Taiwan Strait. Four years later, the pro-independence background of Taiwan's current President Chen Shui-bian elicited a televised harangue by former Chinese Premier Zhu Rongji on the eve of the presidential polls. But during this year...
...Manila: International Risk Management Locals trained by former SAS and Delta Force fighters, they've guarded Hollywood celebs and royal families. Cost: $250 per 12-hour shift...
...interests and foreign capital against Bolivia's interests," said Jaime Solares, head of the Bolivian Workers Central. "All of his measures must be wiped out!" Foreign investors can only hope that the rest of Latin America doesn't begin to sound that Jacobin. Reassuringly, the region's new leftward shift seems more strongly influenced by the fiscal prudence and less strident rhetoric Brazil's Lula has adopted since taking office. But as the U.S. - which has made no secret of its dislike for Morales - sent one of its own army units into La Paz last weekend to help evacuate Americans...