“Universities have been sitting in the catbird seat with this explosion of student loan debt,” he said. “As we go into this recession I predict the universities will lower - for once - their tuitions.”
- Credit crisis makes student loans harder to secure for future, UNOGateway.com, March 10, 2011.
3. There were two major nuclear non-proliferation conferences in April, one in Washington (President Barack Obama’s Nuclear Security Summit) and one in Tehran (International Conference on Disarmament and Non-Proliferation). A third, aka the Big One - the Non-proliferation Treaty (NPT) Review Conference held in New York City under the auspices of the United Nations - is now taking place in New York.
China has attended all these confabs in its apparently successful efforts to stake out an advantageous and independent position on nuclear weapons policy and the Iran crisis - and counter Russian attempts to create a new, anti-China security condominium in alliance with the United States.
After months of anxiety and uncertainty, China finds itself in the catbird seat - and in a position to profit if Obama’s Iran diplomacy succeeds or, as appears very possible, it fails.
- China in the catbird seat on Iran, ATime.com, May 6, 2010.
About the author:
Zhang Xin is Trainer at chinadaily.com.cn. He has been with China Daily since 1988, when he graduated from Beijing Foreign Studies University. Write him at: zhangxin@chinadaily.com.cn, or raise a question for potential use in a future column.
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