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Mr. Xi comes to town
Douglas H. Paal China’s Vice President Xi Jinping recently visited the United States on a trip intended to keep relations between the two largest economies and often mistrustful partners within constructive channels. The visit was also meant to familiarize the figure likely to head China for the next five to …
The toll of ‘moral underdevelopment’
“…moral development is highly informative in making sense of what is going on around us today. As evident in our political, professional, and daily social life, while those hypocrite, wicked and inept individuals are well embraced and granted significant public positions simply on account of their mere submissiveness, loyalty, affinity …
Ethiopian women in the Middle East: it’s contract slavery
The vicious cycle of the lives of Ethiopian women in the Middle East shows no sign of end Hone Mandefro Following the oil boom witnessed since the ‘70s in the Gulf States, the hunt for foreign domestic workers, mostly women, to take up jobs less favored by the locals has …