These ties could actually wind up perpetuating a regime in China unwilling genuinely to open its markets and bent on military and international activities highly inimical to U.S. security.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Center For Security Policy

The Center for Security Policy commends Representative Cox , for amendments he has developed to minimize the chances that food aid and fuel oil to North Korea will wind up strengthening and perpetuating its despotic regime.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Center For Security Policy

They may get a second wind because of tactical mistakes the current regime has made in its tax reforms: It raised excise taxes and various VAT levies because it felt obliged to match the revenues that would allegedly be lost by moving to a flat tax.

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Alexei Malashenko, an expert on Central Asia at the Carnegie Moscow Centre, argues that unless it wants to repeat the mistake it made in neighbouring Tajikistan whose Islamists the Russians criticised, only to see some of them wind up in government the Kremlin needs to think about the sort of regime that is likely to follow Mr Karimov's, whenever that may be.

ECONOMIST: Uzbekistan