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  • The Presidential Regional Power Brackets: BHO Picks the Dark Horse

    03/30/2014 8:53:00 AM PDT · by NOBO2012 · 1 replies
    Michelle Obama's Mirror ^ | 3-30-2014 | MOTUS
    I know. I expected BO to just veg out and watch hoops all weekend too. Butt as you well know, being President means never really being off the clock.No doubt driven by the revelation that there’s a new “regional power” on the block, BO decided to emerge from his man cave to make his picks in the Presidential Regional Power Brackets, which he developed himself. In the North division he selected Canada over Alaska because they’re much more polite. In the East, he took China over North Korea, although that one was hard to call, as was the Middle East,...
  • China's worsening North Korean headache(the fear of Bush helps?)

    01/28/2005 5:00:51 AM PST · by TigerLikesRooster · 18 replies · 925+ views
    Asia Times ^ | 01/28/05 | Kosuke Takahashi
    China's worsening North Korean headache By Kosuke Takahashi TOKYO - The problem of China's intractable neighbor North Korea developing nuclear weapons could grow even worse for Beijing if the United States seeks United Nations Security Council sanctions against Pyongyang. Then what will China do? How will it vote? Will its problem with its old Korean ally become a Sino-US problem - or even crisis? A Chinese diplomat close to the talks, speaking on condition of anonymity, showed this correspondent four four-character Chinese idioms commonly used in North Asia and specifically used these days to describe North Korea's duplicity, especially with...