Chinese President Xi Jinping's meeting with US President Barack Obama, in a low-key setting this week, is of potentially the greatest significance. This meeting is being designed to foment a climate of "equality and mutual trust," as Xi has put it. These are themes that very likely resonate with Obama. But what could possibly go wrong?"What China expects from the US is a clear commitment that it will not do things to harm China's sovereignty," Chen Mingming, a retired Chinese diplomat,
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umbly, organic spheres of influence, which wax and wane, determine boundaries.Some Asian countries have made sweeping claims on their former territories, which were ceded to major powers based on the "unfairness" of previous treaties. To most linear-minded Westerners, relitigating the justice of an ancient treaty makes little sense. In contrast, to a nonlinear Asian mind,
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Canada's national housing agency, the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC),
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Tim Grant, principal of Darlington College,
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Police unions and city administrators have reached agreements that will avert planned layoffs of as many as 31 police officers, or about 25 percent of the force.
Some claim that any regulation of the Internet is an anti-democratic effort. This deceptive voice has gained support from Western public opinion,
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