Li Keqiang With French Minister Of Economy And Finance In Beijing
Chinese Vice Premier Li Keqiang (R) meets with French Minister of Economy and Finance Pierre Moscovici in Beijing, capital of China, Jan. 8, 2013. <Xinhua/Yao Dawei>
Egyptian President, PM Talk With Qatari PM, Two Other Cabinet Ministers In Cairo
Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi (C) and Egyptian Prime Minister Hisham Qandil (4th L) meet with Qatari Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Sheikh Hamad bin Jassim al-Thani (2nd L) and Qatari Finance Minister Yousef Kamal (1st L) in Cairo, Egypt, on Jan. 8, 2013. <Xinhua>
Israeli Election Committee Head Explains For Foreign Press On Coming Knesset Elections
Chairman of the Israeli Central Elections Committee Judge Elyakim Rubinstein (C) briefs foreign press in Jerusalem, on Jan. 7, 2013, ahead of the elections for the 19th Knesset (Israeli parliament) held on Jan. 22. <Xinhua/Yin Dongxun>
Campaign Billboard Of Netanyahu Erected Near Tel Aviv For General Election On Jan. 22
An Israeli ultra-orthodox Jewish man walks past an election campaign billboard of Israeli Prime Minister and Likud Party leader Benjamin Netanyahu, in Bnei Brak, near Tel Aviv, Israel, Sunday, Jan. 6, 2013. General elections in Israel are scheduled for Jan. 22, 2013. Israelis walk past an election campaign billboards of Israeli Prime Minister and Likud […]
‘Madam is more appropriate’
How should President-elect Park Geun-hye be addressed in English? An official from Park’s transition team said the nation’s first female president could be addressed as either Madam or Ms. The Foreign Ministry also confirmed there was no preference but pointed out that Ms. was used more frequently than madam in congratulatory cables from abroad with […]
Chinese Vice Premier Li Keqiang Meets With Model Rural Doctors In Beijing
Chinese Vice Premier Li Keqiang, who is also a member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, shakes hands with Zhong Jing (L), a rural doctor from a village in Guizhou Province, during his meeting with Zhong and 17 other model rural doctors in Beijing, […]
Yemeni PM And Chinese Amb. To Yemen Attend Ceremony To Inaugurate National Library Project In Sanaa
Yemeni Prime Minister Mohamed Salem Basindwa (R) and Chinese Ambassador to Yemen Chang Hua (L) attend the inauguration ceremony of the National Library Project in Sanaa, Yemen, on Jan. 6, 2013. Yemeni Prime Minister Mohamed Salem Basindwa (2nd R) attend the inauguration ceremony of the National Library Project in Sanaa, Yemen, on Jan. 6, 2013. […]
Not Backing Down: China Responds to the US Rebalance to Asia
*Author, Wu Xinbo is Professor and Deputy Director, the Center for American Studies, Fudan University, Shanghai. Predictably, the last US presidential election campaign featured the usual competition between candidates over who would be “tougher” on China, a ritual political exercise that is almost always followed by even greater American engagement with China once the new […]
Challenging ASEAN:The US Pivot Through Southeast Asia’s Eyes
*Author, Donald K. Emmerson heads the Southeast Asia Forum in the Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center at Stanford University. The US pivot toward Asia has been viewed largely through the lens of American security and economic competition with China. Within that context, writes Donald K. Emmerson, Washington is also deepening its involvement in ASEAN in terms […]
Turkey’s Former Chief Of Staff Under Questioning Over His Role In Toppling Former Gov’t In 1997
Turks wave national flags and his posters as Ismail Hakki Karadayi, Turkey’s former Chief of Staff, arrives at a courthouse in Ankara, Turkey, Thursday, Jan. 3, 2013. A prosecutor on Thursday began questioning Karadayi over his role in the ousting of an Islamic-led coalition government in 1997. Police escorted Karadayi, 80, from his Istanbul residence […]
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