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Heads of political parties are usually not called to international conferences. Diplomatic ettiquette is that Heads of States meet Heads of State, Ambassadors meet Ambassadors etc. Theoretically, if a party chairman was involved, USA would have to drag in head of democratic party to the...

The present economic crisis in USA is a complicated one. But it is not the worse that we have seen, the "biggest" was the 1930 depression which was probably caused by a fall in international trade. The worst economic crises on the other hand have all been during wars or totalitarian governments...

I have a question regarding this.. would like general comments, please don't make it an international blame game. 1) Would direct elections of PM/president solve the issue ? USA (atleast until the last 20 years) did not have the problem. But then with the Bushes and Clintons (and Kennedy...

Something to do with Politics of South Asia and the indirect election process... Pakistan is not alone with the dynasty politics thing. India (Sonia, Rahul) , Bangladesh (Both begums), Sri Lanka (Bandaranaikes, Rajapaksa) all belong to some dynasty or the other. I think it might have...

Isn't the title of the thread exact opposite of what the story says ? The story seems to say that SLAF (Sri Lankan Air Force) conducted the 3,000 operations, while the title says PAF ?

Truly, I don't understand you. Anyway, that's my last post on this thread unless any new news comes in.

Oh and BTW, please stop using racial epithets for Chinese people. We don't know if you are Chinese. So I think you might be using that term just to start a fight. Please refrain, it is against the forum rules to do that.

Why do you think I hate China ? Where did I insult anyone ? Now I am totally confused.

Xinhua was saying that the rape accusation was a false one spread by a guy who was laid off from work. The guy seems to have been arrested.

I was not setting conditions. I am saying that you'd need to follow these steps to build trust for an alliance. Personally, I'd love to see peace between both countries.

I don't understand this. Are you trying to destroy China's image ? The above states have nothing to do with Uygur provinces or whatever. Why drag them into this and make this into an India vs. China issue ? Rationally speaking, India has nothing to gain from supporting Uygur movements or by...

Sure. We all understand all of this. But saying this is like starting a thread with the title "Benefits of a cat-dog alliance". The countries have not had 10 years of continuous peace without some skirmish breaking out. I think the way to go is 1) Peace 2) Talks 3) Trade 4) Settling of border...

Accused head of accused terror movement. Not proved until Chinese and international courts say so. I don't know who to trust. Both sides seem to be making accusations.I was not there, so I don't know if 800 were killed. If that happened that is also equally condemnable. Will wait for more...

She seems to have denied the accusations. Anyway, who is she ? This is the first time I have heard her name. Exclusive interview: Uighur leader Rebiya Kadeer - Channel 4 News LH: You claim that the demonstration was peaceful, however we have a lot of evidence which you can't deny...

Ah OK. Finally I think I am starting to understand what you have been complaining about. I think you might be wrong here. 1) The news was censored for right reasons, so criticizing that is bad. - Frankly most of us are on the fence on this one. Since all of us are outside China, I think...

Oh OK. I understand better now.

Sure, I am not claiming that Europe is heaven or anything. But what I am saying is that racism is very different from anti-immigration feeling. The anti-Roma thing has been going on over Europe for a long time. But things on that front have only gotten better, not worse. It certainly is not...

I understand what you are trying to say, but please don't equate immigrants with minorities. Having lived in Europe, I have to say that racial discrimination is pretty low. The same has been my experience in the US. Sure, it is difficult to get a job, but that is due to Visa restrictions...

Continuing on what I think of Indian media ... Rediff has a split personality. Many stories are rightist, but they also have authors from extreme left. In effect I think they have zero editorial control with all sort of biases in their stories. The good thing with rediff is that they...

Funny! Here is the other view. (Most) British people think that BBC is there to criticize the British government (They watch the local BBC channels more often than international ones that we see). (Some) Indians think Zee TV has some sort of underworld connection -especially since no one...