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The Current Discussion: China's on a resource-buying spree, most recently paying US$13 billion for a stake in an Australian mining company. Is this a threat to your nation and its economy? To the world's?
China’s presence in Iran and the Middle East might be a potential threat for the United States given its current regional policies – but it is an opportunity for emerging nations like Iran.
The Question: After Benazir Bhutto's assassination on Thursday, what's next for Pakistan?
The assassination of Bhutto is the consequence of an unfinished job started in 2001 by the international community in Afghanistan; it is also a blow to the war against global terrorism and to democratization in the region.
It is not hard to understand who is behind this terrorist act. Those that benefit most from chaos and the spread of instability in Pakistan and in the region are the al-Qaeda organization and the Taliban, or the intelligence elements who created both. It does not matter who conducted this criminal act since the wound is the same: it has endangered regional stability and peace.
How is the world different if Iran DOESN'T have a nuclear weapons program, as the CIA now says?
The dominant debate here in America nowadays is that Iran will be America’s main challenge in the years to come. I would say the Bush administration has made Iran a challenge in at least in two ways: Iran’s nuclear weapons threat, and Iran’s rise to the status of regional power. Thanks to the NIE report, at least the first of these has been reduced, and therefore the possibility of going into an unwanted war is now lower.
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