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The very same "hurt feelings" emerge when the pretext is a cartoon, a book, or even US counter-terror policy, like outlawing material support for terrorist organizations.
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Free trade deal talks between China, Japan and South Korea that finally got underway in Seoul yesterday have also been widely welcomed by Chinese experts, despite predictions that the negotiations may stall over opening up sensitive sectors like farming and manufacturing, further territorial spats or even US resistance, Liberation Daily reports.
BBC: China media: Vietnam row
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Ultimately, profiling, or closing down the borders, or even banning mosques, as some would like to do, may not actually protect us.
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In this landscape, free public higher ed (God help us), or even renewed public investment in higher education looks like, at worst, government crowding out of innovative models we desperately need, and at best, irrelevant.
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When I am asked whether presenting the Today programme makes me nervous, I usually answer that the very worst that can happen in live broadcasting is that one is left looking like a prat - the stakes are nothing like as high for us as they are for a surgeon or even a stockbroker with a widow's pension to look after.
BBC: 'must meet praise with humility'
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The Russians would be overjoyed to dump a useless, unstable, and likely doomed ally like Syria if it would stop or even simply slow down NATO expansion, much less if they could get the US to actually dump missile defense in Europe.
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