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In just the past 72 or so hours President Barack Obama has both become the first president to ever refuse to meet the Dalai Lama, and denied funding to the Iran Human Rights Documentation Center. Both are policies based in appeasement, and the president’s track record on that is quite disturbing.
Beyond the historic snub, it’s [...]

Last week National Intelligence Council chairman nominee Charles Freeman withdrew his name, blaming “the Israel Lobby” for his lack of support to the post. Curiously, this would then define some leading Democrats — including Nancy Pelosi, Rahm Emanuel, and Barack Obama himself — as persons beholden to “the Israel Lobby,” as they were either vocally [...]

Here’s Andrew Roth:
I’m glad Greg Mankiw caught this. Treasury Secretary Tim Geitner told Congress last month that China should stop manipulating their currency (by buying dollars). Last week, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton told the Chinese to keep buying U.S. dollars.
So which is it??
This blunder, along with the “Buy American” fiasco, the empty cabinet seats [...]

[UK Times] A major offensive involving 300 Sudanese government battlewagons intended to clear space for Chinese oil exploration in Darfur’s far north has begun, according to rebel commanders who have come under attack.
Oil companies have been waiting for the Government to secure the region before starting work on seismic surveys.
The claims of fresh [...]

Just the reminder by Ellen Bork of Freedom House that as you watch the Olympics the China you see is not the China you see. (Special Freedom House report here).

The PRC’s [People's Republic of China's] leaders still control what Chinese people read and watch on television on any topic where they perceive their interests to be [...]