Then there is Belarus, whose ruler, Alexander Lukashenko, clings to authoritarian rule.

So what hope is there for a poor country torn by civil war?

So for now, the world must hope that Americans continue gorging on foreign imports.

Chen s record suggests he will hang on to his failed presidency. He will use his legal training to fight on technicalities.

Irrigation systems remain crude and inadequate to confronting the vicissitudes of rainfall on the often parched and barren Korean peninsula. This neglect has left North Koreans perpetually on the edge of survival and often with their palms extended to the international community, especially the South.

It is more than odd to argue that the rest of the world has to cope with a built in advantage for China s exporters because its authoritarian political system cannot cope with any change.