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Would You Give Joe Biden A Tenner To Carry It Around For A While? Of Course You Wouldn’t

Adam Lovejoy writes from Brussels: As US Vice President Joe Biden comes to Europe to say things we ask: would you give this man a tenner, to carry it around for a while in his wallet and to return it to you at some point later? Of course not. And it wouldn’t be because you’d be afraid he’d steal it. No, the main worry would be that he’d lose it or invest it, along with other people’s tenners, into some dodgy scheme run by smooth-talking con-artists. With all respect to the office of the US Vice President, Mr Biden just doesn’t look like a smart kind of politician. In fact, he doesn’t even look much like a politician. More like a man who never did much real work of any kind in his life and probably even played truant in school. And that’s a bit worrying if you think... 

Would Beijing Prefer Obama or McCain To Win?

(Martin McCauley.) Like everyone else the Communist Party of China (CPC) is following the election campaign in the US with great interest. Beijing would love to know who will win the contest to become the 44th President of the United States. So important is the election on November 4 that Ma Hui, the director for the Americas of the International Department of the Central Committee of the CPC attended the Democratic National Convention in Denver. This was the first time that the CPC has been represented at an American political party convention. So what did he make of Barack Obama and Joe Biden, his running mate? He must have been dazzled by the attire of Hillary Clinton who threatened to steal the show. Bill was there too, of course, and the Chinese comrade may have wondered who is really... 

The Crisis In Georgia: The Winners And Losers

It is now becoming apparent who are emerging as winners and losers from the war between Russia and Georgia over the breakaway regions of South Ossetia and Abkhazia.Let’s talk about the winners first. Washington is one of the big winners. That’s why some people, including Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and yours truly, were saying that the United States must have been responsible for igniting the fire. According to Putin, American role in this crisis was highlighted by the presence of ‘US citizens’ on the ground during the Georgian invasion of South Ossetia. Days before Putin’s statement I was writing on this website that the US had their fingerprints all over the crisis because they seemed to be too well prepared for the whole thing in terms of public... 

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