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Martin Jacques
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Tibet is Beijing’s Achilles heel
The Beijing Olympics are a huge occasion for China. Ever since the opium wars, the country has experienced what it describes as a "century of humiliation". Extraordinarily, the…
Tony Blair’s tainted legacy
The smell from the Blair administration in the United Kingdom increasingly resembles a stench. No one knows whether the cash-for-honours affair will end up with charges, and of…
America’s imperial decline
Just a few years ago, the world was in thrall to the idea of American power. The neoconservative agenda not only infused the outlook of the White House, it also dominated the…
Bush ‘one of the worst leaders ever’
Just a month after the American electorate delivered a resounding rebuff to the Bush Iraq policy, the great and the good — in the guise of the Iraq Study Group — have subjected…
New sake in old cups
The election of Shinzo Abe as the leader of Japan’s ruling Liberal Democratic Party and now prime minister will have profound repercussions for Japan and East Asia. Most Western…
Football’s apartheid
One expects the great issues of Europe to be played out in Brussels, or perhaps Strasbourg, or the national capitals, possibly even on the streets, but certainly not in the…