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| GCC Expansion Plan |
 THE
proposal to enlarge the Gulf Cooperation Council to Jordan and
Morocco, made at a council summit meeting in Riyadh last month,
marks a profound change in the nature of the organisation as
it reaches its 30th anniversary. This decision, which went practically
unnoticed in the West, is all the more worthy of attention in
that it is likely to usher in long-term changes in the region´s
political scenario. Initially set up to provide a safeguard
against an Iranian military threat and to create regional economic
integration in the Arabian peninsula, the Gulf Cooperation Council
has moved away from its early... |
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| LESSONS FOR CHINA FROM ARAB SPRING |
 FROM:
Ministry of State S e c u r i t y TO: President Hu Jintao SUBJECT:
The Arab Spring Dear President Hu: You asked for our assessment
of the Arab Spring. Our conclusion is that the revolutions in
the Arab world contain some important lessons for the rule of
the Chinese Communist Party, because what this contagion reveals
is something very new about revolutions unfolding in the 21st
century and something very old about why they explode. Let´s
start with the new. Sometime around the year 2000, the world
achieved a very high level of connectivity, virtually flattening
the global economic. |
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