for no human being has been left unguarded.

for no human being has been left unguarded.

The large scale illegal fishing off the vast unguarded Puntland coast continues.

But, with the Kim regime terrified that economic liberalization would eventually provoke demands for greater political freedom, China s influence over the regime is limited. As a Chinese official once told me in an unguarded moment, North Korea has hijacked our foreign policy.

The candidates in US debates address carefully selected journalists who rarely follow up on a question. And the candidates performances are scrutinized less on the substance of their arguments than on their presentation, body language, facial tics, unguarded sighs, smiles, sneers, and inadvertent eye rolling.

The increasing role of other powers in the region Iran and Turkey, but China above all gives local leaders even more wriggle room, particularly because, as Lukashenka said in characteristically unguarded fashion during a visit to Beijing, China s investment has never had any political strings attached.

Inter urban competition and the militias defiant independence are all the more worrisome because Libya is awash in weapons, with unguarded caches, abandoned stockpiles, looted ammunition depots, and thousands of shoulder fired heat seeking surface to air missiles. Last November, Mokhtar Belmokhtar, the commander of al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM), confirmed that AQIM seized the opportunity to secure some of this arsenal when the revolution started.