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  • Is Turkey turning?

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    Is Turkey turning?
    Scatterbrain
    Scatterbrain 2010/06/16
    Turkey depends heavily on Iranian gas, and fears that any conflict with Iran might ripple widely. “We are no longer puppets,” declares Mehmet Simsek, Turkey’s finance minister. Better relations with neighbours have opened up markets for Turkish goods. A strong economy amid the global financial
  • Commentary » Blog Archive » Naoto Kan’s Foreign Policy

    U.S.-Japan relations have been on the rocks since the Democratic Party of Japan overtook the long-dominant Liberal Democratic Party last August. On Wednesday, the bedraggled prime minister resigned, leaving the U.S.-Japan relationship mired in even more uncertainty. But Naoto Kan, the man chosen today to replace Hatoyama as Japanese prime minister, has made statements in the past that suggest caus

    Scatterbrain
    Scatterbrain 2010/06/06
    If Kan meant what he has said in the past, the United States can expect him to pursue a foreign policy of diminished U.S. military presence in Japan, low Japanese support for U.S. war efforts in Iraq, and further Japanese outreach to allies other than the United States.
  • <日米密約>重要文書を破棄か 事実解明なく幕引き(毎日新聞) - Yahoo!ニュース

    岡田克也外相は4日の記者会見で、01年の情報公開法施行前に核持ち込みなどの日米密約に関する文書が破棄された可能性を認める調査報告書を公表した。外相は「仮に廃棄・紛失したならば極めて遺憾だ。文書を失うことは歴史を失うことだ」と述べた。 【日米密約問題】外務省調査報告書の全文 昨年の政権交代を受け外務省は今年3月、1960年の日米安全保障条約改定時に核搭載艦船の寄港を認める「広義の密約」があったなどとする有識者委員会の報告書を公表した。東郷和彦元外務省条約局長が同月、衆院外務委員会で、後任局長の谷内正太郎前事務次官に関連文書を引き継いだと証言して文書破棄の可能性を指摘。外務省は岡田外相を委員長とする調査委員会を設置し、東郷、谷内両氏らOB・現役幹部職員15人から聞き取り調査を行っていた。 報告書によると、谷内氏は「核密約を含むいくつかの資料を引き継いだのは確かだが、目を通さず、すべて(担

  • BBC - Mark Mardell's America: Should America lead the world?

  • Horse Feathers and Horse Sense

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    Horse Feathers and Horse Sense
    Scatterbrain
    Scatterbrain 2010/04/23
    After all, his greatest achievement to date is not the damage that al Qaeda inflicted on September 11. Instead, his real achievement was helping convince the Bush administration to adopt the neo-conservative program in the Middle East-most notably in the 2003 invasion of Iraq-a set of self-inflicted
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