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"The State Department took the unusual step of replacing the head of its Japan section in an attempt to calm a mounting furor over remarks about Okinawa allegedly made by the career foreign service official."

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"I'm sure the Russian people will be shocked—shocked!—to discover that U.S. diplomats think the Russian president, Dmitry Medvedev, "plays Robin to Putin's Batman." Italians will be equally horrified to learn that their prime minister, Silvio Berlusconi, is considered "feckless, vain, and ineffective as a modern European leader," just as the French will be stunned to hear President Nicolas Sarkozy called "thin-skinned and authoritarian." As for the Afghans, they will be appalled to read that their president, Hamid Karzai, has been described as "an extremely weak man who did not listen to facts.""

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The Jamestown Foundation hosted a packed event on Chinese defense and security on Thursday at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. The event opened strong, with some important points being made in the introduction and by the first panel. These six points are theirs,* but they are worth juxtaposing. They are paraphrased here.

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Redefining American Diplomacy and Development

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Connectivity and the diffusion of power

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"A word more about Chuck before turning the floor back to him and other guests. In the thirty-plus years that I've known him, I've never heard a partisan statement out of Chuck. He is hard on most politicians --as he is here on Obama for what he argues is a squandered / betrayed promise to bring real "change" to America's dealings with the world. But he has been if anything harder on Obama's opponents and predecessors, including in what became a wildly-popular chart showing Democrats' and Republicans' comparative records in balancing budgets. This is for context about one of the most detached and relentlessly logical observers I have known. Over to him -- and through the coming week, his colleagues. JF. "

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Why "21st Century Statecraft"—the idea that America can use the Internet to influence global events—is more dream than reality

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"Collectively, these initiatives represented a stark departure from more than a decade of Chinese passivity and buck-passing on the Korean nuclear question. And they signal a larger, although still largely unrecognized, transformation: China's emergence as an active player in the international arena. In recent years, China has begun to take a less confrontational, more sophisticated, more confident, and, at times, more constructive approach toward regional and global affairs. In contrast to a decade ago, the world's most populous country now largely works within the international system. It has embraced much of the current constellation of international institutions, rules, and norms as a means to promote its national interests. And it has even sought to shape the evolution of that system in limited ways."

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