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...McMahon has taken a lot of heat from the left for his vote against President Obama's top priority. New York City Council Speaker Christine Quinn canceled a fundraiser for him, and the Service Employees International Union withdrew its support and is now actively searching for a Democrat to challenge McMahon in the September primary, as are MoveOn.org and the local progressive Working Families Party. Still, the unions are split on McMahon, who is usually a strong supporter of the labor agenda, and most other local chapters in his district have remained noticeably quiet on his health care vote. Many...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Health Care and the Democrat Who Voted No | 4/8/2010 | See Source »

...military base in the north of Kyrgyzstan, without which U.S. supply lines to the nearby war in Afghanistan would be significantly hampered. Russia, meanwhile, has lobbied to kick the American military out of what it still sees as its sphere of influence in the territories of the former Soviet Union. (See pictures of the disorder in Kyrgyzstan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Kyrgyzstan: Did Moscow Subvert a U.S. Ally? | 4/8/2010 | See Source »

...think of what we face as a choice between polite stasis and co-evolution, between stalemate and a commitment to a mutually assured stability that can mark our future with China as clearly as mutually assured destruction once marked our ties to the Soviet Union...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hu's Visit: Finding a Way Forward on U.S.-China Relations | 4/8/2010 | See Source »

...making trouble? Nothing as big as China moves without pressing up against old ideas of power and stability. For most of the past 30 years, U.S. Presidents arrived in office bashing China and left praising it. Ties between the countries were cemented by a desire to balance the Soviet Union and, later, economic co-dependence. But these underlying forces have now been complicated. The growth of nationalism in China, American economic nervousness, China's changing economic model - all conspire against common interest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hu's Visit: Finding a Way Forward on U.S.-China Relations | 4/8/2010 | See Source »

...confronted with another dense cable from Washington, proposing ideas that made no sense for the nation he saw around him. Summoning his energy, Kennan dictated an 8,000-word reply to Foggy Bottom, the Long Telegram that became the defining document of the Cold War. The Soviet Union, Kennan explained, looked at the world and sensed danger in every corner. Its reaction would be to seek expansion as a way to guarantee its security. And the solution he proposed became known as containment, the doctrine that dominated the next 50 years of policymaking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hu's Visit: Finding a Way Forward on U.S.-China Relations | 4/8/2010 | See Source »

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