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If you play your cards right

Today, things are different. Paradoxically, the improvement on the ground benefits the Democratic candidate, since there are fewer issues in dispute. An early redeployment is no longer possible in Iraq, and everyone agrees that it’s on Afghanistan that America will have to focus - it is there that the war against terrorism will be won or lost.

On Iran, the same phenomenon occurs: Barack Obama didn’t have it wrong when he advocated dialogue, since even Bush has decided to send a senior envoy [William Burns] to the Geneva meeting [with Iran] today.

Therefore, Angela Merkel, Nicolas Sarkozy and Gordon Brown in their turn will receive a man who up to now - has played his cards right. Without prejudging the outcome of November 4, it's important that they present to him the picture of a united Europe, determined to help America, but also to assume its responsibilities in the world.

- Welcome Obama: A Man Who Has ‘Played His Cards Right’, WorldMeets.US, July 19, 2008.

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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.