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...commerce is indirectly dependent on the West. A high percentage of Taiwan's trade with China, for example, is made up of electronic components shipped to Chinese factories for assembly into finished products that eventually appear on U.S. store shelves. As a result, Taiwan's China trade is contracting twice as fast as the island's U.S. exports...
...inevitable association with Obama, and I had the chance to talk politics with the Ghanaian university students who planned to stay up through the night and watch the election results in November. Sharing in the euphoria of Obama’s victory at home and abroad made Nov. 4 twice as sweet...
...children are among the few to have their mother's name listed twice on their birth certificates - once as their mother, and once as New York's health commissioner...
...sure, Japan has the capacity to renew itself. It has done so twice in modern times, first after the Meiji Restoration in the late 19th century, when a traditional, closed society modernized so thoroughly that by 1905 it was able to defeat a major European power, Russia, in war; and again after 1945, when a new economy was built from the ashes...
...Turkey's rising star in Obama's Washington could also help keep the country's democratization process on track. Elected twice on a platform of change, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan's government has been faltering on democratic reforms in recent months. Having been frustrated in its efforts to expedite its acceptance into the European Union, Turkey's government has instead put greater emphasis on looking east, burnishing its influence in the Islamic world. The Kurdish conflict in the southeast, which spills over into Iraq, remains unresolved and reforms have stalled, while a recent U.S. State Department human rights report...