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Ask Obama and Romney This: What if China squares off with Japan?

An emerging, and little discussed, dilemma

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Howard W. French is an associate professor at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. From 2003 to 2008, he was the Shanghai bureau chief of The New York Times. At present, he is a fellow of the Open Society Foundation and is researching a book on China and Africa. French's most recent book is "Disappearing Shanghai: Photographs and Poems of an Intimate Way of Life," with Qiu Xiaolong.

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Glenn Greenwald has a great question for Obama:

"Prior to your election, Democrats — you included — spent years aggressively denouncing President Bush for claiming the power to eavesdrop on Americans without judicial review and imprison people without due process.

"And yet you have claimed not only those powers, but also the authority to assassinate people, including Americans, without any due process.

"How can you claim that it was wrong for President Bush merely to eavesdrop on or imprison people without judicial review, but it's permissible and lawful for you to do something much more extreme — target them for assassination — without any judicial review?"

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#1 Posted by Dan A., CJR on Mon 22 Oct 2012 at 08:50 PM

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