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Al-Assad, despite his English education and modern tailored suits, has aligned himself with and actively supported the worst most anti-democratic, retrograde forces in the region.
CNN: Syria's chemical weapons threat demands a response
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Beijing is destabilizing its neighbors, supporting retrograde elements in Burma, implicitly threatening democratic India with its nuclear missile force, massing hundreds of missiles on the coast against Taiwan, and claiming and militarily occupying islands and reefs claimed by Vietnam and the Philippines in a bid to control the South China Sea.
CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: China has become a force for instability
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Much of Poland's new establishment, particularly foreign and local bigwigs with money invested in economic reform, blanches at the prospect of such a chaotic and possibly retrograde force taking power in September.
ECONOMIST: Poland