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On the day of President Hamid Karzai’s inauguration, AMANPOUR speaks EXCLUSIVELY with Afghan Interior Minister Hanif Atmar and a presidential candidate in the recent election, Dr. Ashraf Ghani, also a former finance minister and World Bank official, about efforts to curb corruption in government. Is it possible to govern Afghanistan now? Afghanistan tops our review of other stories making news this morning. Please take a look.
– Tom Evans; Sr. Writer, AMANPOUR.
AFGHANISTAN – Is there an exit strategy for international forces from Afghanistan?
– Afghan president Karzai, in inauguration, says he wants foreign troops to play only a supporting role in five years
– Is Karzai announcement a coincidence or is it timed to help President Obama who’s soon expected to announce a troop increase in Afghanistan?
– U.K. prime minister Brown this week said he hopes upcoming U.N. conference will agree to plan to allow Afghan government to begin taking control of districts from 2010
– Serious doubts about ability of Afghan military and police forces to take lead in security, even within five years
QUESTION: Is Karzai’s announcement designed to target his backers overseas, or is he just playing politics in his inauguration speech? FULL POST
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North Korea’s vast natural resources and continued exports to China versus the increasing hunger and malnutrition the country faces prove ironic according to most Amanpour’s audience members. Some of the words our viewers used to describe this picture were, “selfishness, communism, dictatorship” and “government poor expenditure of profit received in exchange.”
What are your thoughts? Do you agree? Disagree? We would like to hear from you, if you missed the show, or for more information on the full-length podcast @ http://cnn.com/amanpour
Below, you will see some opinions from viewers like yourself.
Michael Ukanga Ekpo
I think they are conducting an ECONOMIC experiment with this.
The same happened in Iraq. While the Iraqi people were suffering the boycotts and struggling, saddam and his people were living the high life in their palaces of a 1001 nights. One day their day wil come and the Koreans will have their country,. I hope it doesn't happen the way it did in Iraq. FULL POST
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Tom's Take
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Today, Joseph Sebarenzi speaks to AMANPOUR about his new memoir of barely surviving the Rwandan genocide that killed his entire family and 800,000 other Tutsis. He became a member of parliament and later a specialist on conflict resolution. His story mirrors the story of Rwanda itself, as it struggles to come back from the abyss. There are plenty of other international headlines to tell you about today as well. Here are some perspectives on those.
Tom Evans
Sr. Writer, AMANPOUR.
CHINA/U.S. – Who has the upper hand in what’s being called the world’s most important bilateral relationship after the U.S. president’s visit to China?
– U.S. Pres. Obama ends visit to China with little of substance to show for a visit that was long on warm rhetoric between the two countries and short on significant policy agreements
– Obama’s visit, in which he was censored by the Chinese authorities, shows how far relations between the 2 countries have changed since Bill Clinton’s freewheeling visit in 1998 when the U.S. was the world’s dominant power
– Obama’s visit showed limits of American power and influence as U.S. and China move closer to being equals on the world stage
– Obama went to Beijing weakened by impact of recession on U.S. and with the American military stretched by two wars in Iraq and Afghanistan
QUESTION: Has American global political, economic, and military power receded to such an extent that two centuries of Anglo-Saxon domination of world affairs are coming to an end? FULL POST
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Christian’s look to Al Qaeda’s growing influence in Europe forced most viewers to contribute with bold opinions. The tone of the commentary suggested self-reflection and implored a second look at the issues at hand. Some described Al-Qaeda as an ideology that was getting stronger, while other preferred to see it as “fuel extremism, causing despair in the world.” Please share your thoughts with us.
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They just gave america a kicking in its largest military base on american soil (Fort Hood) and your 'experts' still think alqaeda is getting weaker.
This is a typical example of one of the biggest problems the west faces – the people its put incharge to counter alqaeda have no idea how alqaeda thinks/operates FULL POST
Tom's Take
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On AMANPOUR. today, we focus on the Korean peninsula. South Korea is the last stop for President Obama as he wraps up his weeklong trip throughout Asia. What to do about the growing national security threat posed by North Korea will surely be high on the list of topics for discussion in Seoul. AMANPOUR has the latest on what is going inside the closed state, including a report from a recent defector now trying to adjust to life as a refugee in South Korea. President Obama’s visit to Asia is just one of the stories making news today. Here are some perspectives on that and some other stories in the headlines.
Tom Evans
Sr. Writer, AMANPOUR.
U.S. AND CHINA – How much did Obama/Hu summit in Beijing achieve?
– President Obama talks of positive, cooperative and comprehensive relationship between U.S. and China
– Hu says he believes strong dialogue is important not only for U.S. and China, but whole world
– Summit affirmed U.S. recognition of China as a major player on the world stage
– But two leaders could not bridge divide on crucial issues such as trade, human rights, Tibet, and climate change
QUESTION: Is China an economic threat to the U.S. as 71 percent of Americans believe, according to a new CNN/Opinion Research Corporation poll?
FULL POST
Ojigi didn’t!
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By Vladimir Duthiers, Amanpour Intern
Many in the media have focused on President Obama’s recent photo-op taken with Emperor Akihito of Japan. It shows Obama waist deep in Ojigi – the act of bending the waist and the head at a 15 degree angle as a social gesture. AKA – bowing. The White House says the President was simply following protocol but to many in the United States, his actions seem to clash with America’s egalitarian origins.
Speaking to John King on CNN’s State of the Union, conservative commentator William Bennet called Obama’s gesture “ugly”, saying, “We don't defer to emperors.”
Over the course of an eighteen year career in global finance, I had the opportunity to travel to Japan many times. During these visits, I was always struck by the fact that my American colleagues never bowed to our Japanese clients and business associates, even if they were bowing to us. As a long time student of the Japanese martial arts, I knew that in Japanese culture, bowing is simply a traditional way to show respect to another person before you start to try and bash their brains in with a well timed punch, roundhouse kick or, a bamboo sword called shinai. FULL POST
Is China a global partner or strategic rival of U.S.?
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By Tom Evans, Sr. Writer AMANPOUR.
1: China today, say many analysts, is in a comparable position to U.S. at the beginning of the 20th century... an emerging power that the dominant global power of the time is trying to downplay. Then it was Great Britain vs. the United States. Now it is the United States vs. China.
2: China's rapid economic expansion continues to outpace growth in the United States, 8.9 percent in the last quarter versus 3.5 percent in the United States giving Beijing huge economic leverage.
3: China is on the brink of overtaking Japan as the world's second biggest economy and could overtake by some estimates (PricewaterhouseCoopers) the U.S. economy in overall size (though not GDP a head) by 2025 and be 130 percent bigger than the U.S. economy by 2050 FULL POST
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“Mom, I met Helen Thomas, Sam Donaldson and Oscar the Grouch yesterday… so it was a big day for me.”
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