“This was the first time I participated on an international stage,” Chiang Kai-shek wrote in
his diary after the Cairo conference of November 1943, where he collaborated with Franklin
D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill. “The results were beyond my expectations.”
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The Central Reform Committee holds its first meeting in August 1950, setting out on its
mission of re-establishing the state in a new location and on revitalized principles. In the
background are the insignia of the Republic of China and a portrait of Sun Yat-sen, first provisional
president of the republic and co-founder of the Kuomintang (Nationalist) party.
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Not appeasement! Today few Americans, left or right, would be comfortable with direct talks between our president and a character like Ahmadinejad. Wouldn’t such talk only puff up extremist leaders and make America into a supplicant?
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Although Sarkozy began his political career as a party activist and has always belonged to the same political party as Chirac, he does not share Chirac’s anti-American Gaullist tendencies.
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Paul R. Gregory’s new book, Lenin’s Brain, peers into the nightmare workings of the Soviet state.
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Imports bad, exports good—how long must we endure this skewed logic?
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Although the appreciation of the yuan might initially raise U.S. exports to China and lower China’s exports to the United States, these effects would be small and transitory as long as the imbalances between savings and investment persist in the two economies.
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To reduce the imbalances between China and the United States requires more carefully crafted policies than a revaluation of the currency.
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Bailouts, protectionism, higher tax rates, new spending—these are supposed to help?.
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Anthony Ryan, assistant secretary of the Treasury said, “Just as some species become extinct in nature, some new financing techniques may prove to be less successful than others.”
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Graying populations aren’t the economic time bomb we fear. Instead, think of better health and longer productive years.
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Placebos work, but are they ethical?
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How the British became the most spied-upon people in Western Europe.
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Let the states improve the performance of our students—and let Washington measure it.
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Robert Conquest and a television crew prepare for a scene in the documentary Red Empire
in May 1990, as a cultural and political thaw spread in the former Soviet Union. The flood of
new material about the Soviet police state led Conquest to update The Great Terror for the
first time that year.
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President Bush: Presentation of the 2007 National Medals of Arts and National Humanities Medals. East Room. Victor Davis Hanson, military historian.
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