Senior Fellow Orville Schell was quoted in Newsweek on new tensions in US-China relations…….
Day: June 16, 2010
Let Us Now Praise Famous Conspiracy Theories
WASHINGTON — Last Saturday morning, Mike Allen's Politico Playbook, the early-morning blog Washington whisperers wake up to, began this way: "IF YOU READ ONLY ONE STORY — N.Y. Times 2-col. lead, 'Karzai Is Said to Doubt West Can Defeat Taliban,' by Dexter Filkins, in Kabul: President Hamid Karzai 'has been pressing to strike his own deal with the Taliban and the country's archrival, Pakistan … Mr. Karzai's maneuverings involve secret negotiations with the Taliban outside the purview of American and NATO officials. … People close to the president say he began to lose confidence in the Americans last summer. …'"……