Author: Other Lisa

Letter From Iran

[From the diaries by susanbhu. Cross-posted at the Paper Tiger] My dear friend Jodie Evans, co-founder of Code Pink, has been in Iran this past week with a Code Pink delegation. If you’re not familiar with Code Pink, they...

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Hu’s Honeymoon is Over

(cross posted at the Paper Tiger) Philip Pan reports in the Washington Post that many of China’s intellectuals, journalists and CCP reformers have concluded that Hu Jintao, far from opening up China’s political...

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May 4th, the Next Generation?

(cross-posted at the Paper Tiger ) Well, this should be interesting…China’s foreign minister called Tuesday for an end to anti-Japanese protests, the first signal that the leadership may no longer welcome the...

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Senate Steel Cage Death Match!

(cross-posted at the Paper Tiger) For top-notch political theater, you couldn’t beat the fireworks at yesterday’s Senate Foreign Relations Committee confirmation hearing on controversial nominee for Ambassador to the...

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Riot Tourists

(Cross-posted at The Paper Tiger. From the diaries by susanbhu) With the spotlight on anti-Japanese protests in China these past two weeks (and the UK Guardian’s Jonathan Watts gives an excellent summary and backgrounder...

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