Iran, too, has been staunch in its support of Syria, whose ruling Alawite minority belong to a branch of Shiite Islam, the predominant faith in Iran.
This style, which Mr. Wang called "backroom politics," has long dominated in China, whose ruling party was, after all, born underground in revolution and secrecy.
Najib, whose ruling party holds a majority in parliament, has sacked four ministers, his attorney general and deputy prime minister to stamp out dissent.
If empires need administrators from the imperial power, how did Portugal, whose ruling class was already overextended by the mid-1500s, hond on to so many of its dominions into the 1970s?
"This court finds that the General Assembly exceeded its constitutional authority in enacting the early voting statutes," wrote Silkworth, a Democratic appointee whose ruling favors Republicans in one of the State House's most partisan disputes.
The Muslim Brotherhood is a vast entity with offshoots embedded in the political life of countries from Morocco to Jordan to Turkey, whose ruling party sees itself as a cousin of the Brotherhood.
Hua Chunying, China's foreign ministry spokeswoman, suggested that Tsai, whose ruling Democratic Progressive party is viewed with deep suspicion in Beijing, would use the trip to rally diplomatic and political opposition to China.
The US has slapped personal sanctions on Suleimani and two other generals in the Iranian security forces who it accuses of helping orchestrate the crackdown that is believed to have killed more than 1,600 civilians". Tehran has heavily invested in the survival of embattled Syrian president Bashar al-Assad, whose ruling Allawite clan has links to Shia Islam.
Cremona in the Middle Ages was one of a succession of wealthy Italian cities with courts, whose ruling families employed professional musicians.
On Thursday, Obama should raise the following ten issues with the leader of the country whose ruling elite thrives on American taxpayers' money.
Erdogan, whose ruling party traces its roots to a banned Islamist movement, has said that his effort to remake Taksim aims to return it to its original form.
