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China at age 60: from pariah to world power
Beijing: Sixty years ago, as Mao Zedong declared the founding of a new communist nation, China was backward and isolated. Today, it is a world power with sweeping influence — it is financing America’s debt, snapping up access to natural resources in Africa and Latin America, and making its voice heard on major diplomatic issues. [...]
Russian UN envoy says ‘no economic embargo’ against N. Korea
MOSCOW: A new UN Security Council resolution on North Korea will include additional sanctions against the communist regime but will not introduce an economic embargo, Russia’s UN envoy said on Wednesday. At an emergency meeting last week the UN Security Council denounced Pyongyang’s May 25 nuclear test as a violation of Resolution 1718 and the [...]


