On Surveillance, Is America Becoming More Like China?

Do the newly disclosed U.S. surveillance programs mean the differences between America and China on this issue are shrinking?

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Is 2013 the New 1913?

Substitute China for Germany and the United States for Britain, a scholar argues, drawing an inexact but troubling parallel to the year before the start of World War I.

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